Case Name: Avi Zubli et al., Appellants, v. Community Mainstreaming Associates, Inc., et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1980-07-03
Citations: 50 N.Y.2d 1024
Docket Number: 
Parties: Avi Zubli et al., Appellants, v Community Mainstreaming Associates, Inc., et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 50
Pages: 1024–1026

Head Matter:
Avi Zubli et al., Appellants, v Community Mainstreaming Associates, Inc., et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.
Argued June 5, 1980;
decided July 3, 1980
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Solomon H. Friend for appellants.
Seymour H. Kligler, David R. Kay and Asher M. Miller for Community Mainstreaming Associates, Inc., respondent.
Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (William J. Caplow, Shirley Adelson Siegel and Thomas P. Dorsey of counsel), for Thomas Coughlin, III, as Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, respondent.
Stephen M. Richardson for Eastern Federal Savings and Loan Association of Sayville, respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Order modified, with costs to defendants-respondents, by declaring section 41.34 of the Mental Hygiene Law constitutional as applied (see Lanza v Wagner, 11 NY2d 317, 334) and, as so modified, affirmed for reasons stated in the opinion by Mr. Justice Douglas F. Young at Supreme Court, Nassau County (102 Misc 2d 320).
Concur: Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Fuchsberg and Meyer. Taking no part: Judge Wachtler.