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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 “publi...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 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 landmar...