Case Name: In the Matter of Robert A. Straniere, Individually and as Assemblyman of the 61st Assembly District of New York, et al., Appellants, v. Sheldon Silver, as Speaker of the State Assembly, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1996-11-14
Citations: 89 N.Y.2d 825
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Robert A. Straniere, Individually and as Assemblyman of the 61st Assembly District of New York, et al., Appellants, v Sheldon Silver, as Speaker of the State Assembly, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 89
Pages: 825–828

Head Matter:
[675 NE2d 1222, 653 NYS2d 270]
In the Matter of Robert A. Straniere, Individually and as Assemblyman of the 61st Assembly District of New York, et al., Appellants, v Sheldon Silver, as Speaker of the State Assembly, et al., Respondents.
Argued October 16, 1996;
decided November 14, 1996
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Robert A. Straniere and Eric N. Vitaliano, Staten Island, pro se, and Raymond A. Fasano, Staten Island, for Robert A. Straniere and another, appellants.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, L. L. P., New York City (Steven Alan Reiss, David Jason Lender and Jacqueline Haberfeld of counsel), for respondents.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the opinion by Justice Thomas E. Mercure at the Appellate Division (218 AD2d 80).
Concur: Chief Judge Kaye and Judges Simons, Titone, Bellacosa, Smith, Levine and Ciparick.