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lans for multi-use connector trails through
preserved land
(Image courtesy of New York’s Adirondack Park Agency via Courthouse News)
ALBANY, N.Y. (CN) New York’s highest court zapped an effort to build snowmobile routes through the Adirondacks, finding Tuesday in a 3-2 decision that the plans would violate the “forever wild” provision of the state constitution.
Writing for the Court of Appeals majority Tuesday, Associate Judge Jenny Rivera touted the law as maintaining a “publicly owned wilderness of incomparable beauty” for more than a century.
The ruling slams the door on New York’s proposal for 27 miles of multi-use trails, affirming judgment for the group Protect the Adirondacks, which complained that the plan would have required leveling thousands of trees, rocks and other components of the 6 million acre Adirondacks, a preserved forest.
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On Nov. 24, 2020, the State of New York Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Kramer Levin client Sutton 58 Associates LLC (Sutton), an affiliate of Gamma Real Estate, in its $100 million lawsuit brought against real estate investor Philip Pilevsky, his sons and related entities.
The 23-page majority opinion held that federal bankruptcy law did not preempt Sutton’s state law claims for tortious interference with contract. This landmark decision from New York’s highest court reversed a decision of the Appellate Division, First Department, which had imperiled the enforceability of “bankruptcy remote special purpose entity” loan structures and “bad boy” springing loan guarantees. The decision thus preserves these two common real estate financing tools that are crucial to many Kramer Levin clients.