Cuomo Won’t Take Case
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- July
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Gov. David Paterson has hired a team of private attorneys to handle his legal case over his appointment of a lieutenant governor after Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the state’s top lawyer, refused to take the case, Paterson’s lawyers said.
Stanford Law Professor Kathleen Sullivan, who is Paterson’s lead counsel, said Cuomo was asked to represent Paterson but declined after Cuomo earlier this week said Paterson doesn’t have the legal authority to make the appointment.
So it will cost taxpayers for Paterson to hire outside counsel. Reporters asked about the cost, but there was no immediate figures.
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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. 
