Opinion
2015-05-01
In the Matter of COUNTY OF ONEIDA, Petitioner–Plaintiff–Respondent, v. Nira R. SHAH, M.D., M.P.H., Commissioner, New York State Department of Health and New York State Department of Health, Respondents–Defendants–Appellants. v.
Appeal from a judgment (denominated order) of the Supreme Court, Oneida County (Bernadette T. Clark, J.), entered March 14, 2014 in a CPLR article 78 proceeding and declaratory judgment action. The judgment, among other things, directed respondents-defendantsto pay petitioner-plaintiff's pending claims for reimbursement in the amount of $3,123,878.56. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Victor Paladino of Counsel), for Respondents–Defendants–Appellants. Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, Albany (Christopher E. Buckey of Counsel), Nancy Rose Stormer, P.C., Utica, and Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC, for Petitioner–Plaintiff–Respondent.
Appeal from a judgment (denominated order) of the Supreme Court, Oneida County (Bernadette T. Clark, J.), entered March 14, 2014 in a CPLR article 78 proceeding and declaratory judgment action. The judgment, among other things, directed respondents-defendants to pay petitioner-plaintiff's pending claims for reimbursement in the amount of $3,123,878.56.
Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Victor Paladino of Counsel), for Respondents–Defendants–Appellants. Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, Albany (Christopher E. Buckey of Counsel), Nancy Rose Stormer, P.C., Utica, and Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC, for Petitioner–Plaintiff–Respondent.
It is hereby ORDERED that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously modified on the law by denying the petition-complaint in its entirety and granting judgment in favor of respondents-defendants as follows:
It is ADJUDGED and DECLARED that section 61 of part D of section 1 of chapter 56 of the Laws of 2012 has not been shown to be unconstitutional,
and as modified the judgment is affirmed without costs ( see Matter of County of Chautauqua v. Shah, 126 A.D.3d 1317, 6 N.Y.S.3d 334).