MATTER OF CHILDREN OF BEDFORD, INC. v. PETROMELIS, 79 N.Y.2d 972 (1992)

In the Matter of CHILDREN OF BEDFORD, INC., et al., Appellants, v. ANGELO PETROMELIS et al., Constituting the Crime Victims Board of the State of New York, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.
Decided April 3, 1992

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Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, Jacqueline Silbermann, J., Israel Rubin, J.

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Leon Friedman, Jeffrey S. Goldstein and Arthur N. Eisenberg
for appellants.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Susan L. Watson of counsel), for respondents.

Reargument ordered and, upon reargument, following remand by the Supreme Court of the United States, order

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reversed, with costs, judgment declaring Executive Law § 632-a
unconstitutional under the First Amendment to the US Constitution granted and determination of the Crime Victims Board, dated October 26, 1987, annulled (Children of Bedford v Petromelis,
___ US ___, 116 L Ed 2d 767 [Jan. 13, 1992]).

Concur: Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, ALEXANDER, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA. Taking no part: Judges KAYE and TITONE.