Constitutional test over blue laws in Orange County case
In Goshen this morning Orange County fights a suit by White Department stores and Playtogs Factory Outlet to bar Sunday openings. County attorney Gary M. Lobo argues enforcement has been uniform. plaintiffs claim unequal enforcement violates equal protection. The case cites prior Court of Appeals guidance urging legislative repeal rather than court intervention.
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Goshen
Orange County
Middletown
Gary M. Lobo
Playtogs Factory Outlet, Inc
Sobo
Playtogs
Samuel Warwick
Court of Appeals
Warwick
New license plates and Sabbath law case unfold in 1973
Goshen DMV worker inspects fresh 29 600 license plates issued in 1973 as registrations renew. Orange County case centers on Sabbath law confiscation powers used to seize Sunday sales, with Governor Rockefeller and Louis Lefkowitz named defendants. Weissman supports constitutional challenge to the provision, while retailers urge enforcement. Court action in White Plains before Justice Leonard Rubenfeld expected soon.
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White
Playtoys
Warwick
Sobo
Rockefeller
Louis Lefkowitz
Orange County
Abraham J. Weissman
Weissman
Middletown
Assn
White Plains
County IDA can override town zoning says state official
James Hardy regional director of the New York State Department of Commerce explains how Orange County's new Industrial Development Agency can finance up to 5 million per company with bonds and override local zoning and tax exemptions. He notes bonds depend on company strength and warns against full tax exemption.
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Goshen
Orange County
New Industrial Development Agency
IDA
James Hardy
New York State Department of Commerce
Hardy
County Ida
Barton H. Miller
Tuxedo Park
Empire National Bank
Thomas R. Hadaway
Montgomery
Louis V. Mills
Hadaway
Clifton Brown
Warwick
Helmut Kimpel
Orange County Taxpayers Association
Middletown blue laws advocate scorns recent court challenge
Frederick Vlietstra, a Middletown chiropractor and longtime blue laws champion, dismisses rival efforts by two downtown department stores to test the constitutionality of Sunday trading bans. He calls the suit aimed at May 1970s rules “silly” and says the 18th century law should be upheld, enforced, and even strengthened to give families a common day together.
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Middletown
Frederick Vlietstra
Vlietstra
John van Buren
Bay Drug
Peggy McMickle
M. Ronald Phillips
Phillip
Fred Pierce
Playtogs Dept
Vitetstra
Teen fined for shooting dog near Searsville
Francis Bowman a 17 year old resident of Ward Avenue near Searsville pleaded guilty to injury to an animal under Agricultural and Market laws and was fined 25 dollars. The incident occurred after he fired a 30-30 rifle at a dog belonging to Mr and Mrs Paul Romash on Searsville Road as four to five dogs ran loose on his property. Bowman said he didn’t know two people were walking nearby and was ordered by Crawford Justice Isador Wittenberg to cover all veterinary bills.
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Searsville
Crawford
Middletown
Francis Bowman
Ward Avenue
Paul Romash
Searsville Road
Bowman
Isador Wittenberg
Wittenberg
Romas
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