In Joint Session They Will Go
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- June
- 30
A state appeals court ruled this afternoon to uphold a lower court’s ruling Monday that all 62 senators must meet jointly during special sessions called by Gov. David Paterson.
The decision upholds state Supreme Court Judge Joseph Teresi’s ruling Monday that it is illegal for the warring senators to hold separate sessions.
Then again, neither ruling compels the Senate to take any action when they get into the chambers, which as today’s morning session indicates means they can all simply gavel in and gavel out.
GOP lawyer Jack Casey suggested this morning that the case could end up being appealed to the state’s highest court, the state Court of Appeals.
Here’s the decision.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
