ALBANY—After a federal judge threw out the state’s expanded bottle law last month in response to a lawsuit by some major bottlers, government lawyers filed a motion Wednesday calling on the judge to reconsider.
The motion seeks to modify a ruling by Judge Thomas Griesa, which stopped all aspects of the law until April 1, 2010. State officials agreed that a provision calling for a New York-specific UPC code needed to be looked at, but were counting on the measure to provide $115 million in revenue by sending unclaimed deposits (the nickels from bottles of soda, beer, and now bottled
