Bottle Bill Case Adjourned Two Weeks

ALBANY—Lawyers representing both the state and an association of bottlers appeared today in Federal Court in Manhattan to reargue a decision that suspended the state’s expanded bottle law until next year, but the case was adjourned for two weeks.
The law was due to take effect June 1, but was thrown out by Judge Read More

Bottle-Bill Procrastination Will Cost $115 Million

ALBANY—Here’s the official written injunction from federal court Judge Thomas Griesa, which declares the state’s expanded bottle law unenforceable until April 1, 2010, which should cost the state over $100 million dollars.
Griesa issued the order after a group of bottlers sued to stop the enforcement of the law, on grounds that its provision Read More