"Obviously New York is no stranger to the risk of terrorist attacks and it's not just 9/11 that tells us that," US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said in a hearing Wednesday, pointing to the day when "3,000 people died within sight of this courthouse." New York is suing to restore the money, which was earmarked by the US for mass transit security.
A state Supreme Court judge in Albany on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction blocking New York's cannabis regulators from enforcing a stricter interpretation of how dispensaries must measure their distance from schools a move that, cannabis entrepreneurs had argued, threatened to wipe out their businesses and undermine the state's equity goals. The order, signed by Judge Keri Savona, requires the Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) to revert to its previous standard of measuring from a school's entrance,
Planned Parenthood expressed gratitude that the court recognized the "harm" caused by defunding efforts while also noting disappointment over the members losing funding, which could disrupt patient care.
