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THE LEGISLATION ALLOWING PUBLIC FUNDS TO BE USED TO CONSTRUCT A $1.4 BILLION STADIUM FOR THE BUFFALO BILLS IS CONSTITUTIONAL (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Pritzker, determined the statutes authorizing the use of public funds to construct a stadium for the Buffalo Bills are constitutional:

… [T]he NY Constitution establishes that “[t]he money of the state shall not be given or loaned to or in aid of any private corporation or association, or private undertaking” (NY Const, article VII, § 8 [1]). “[T]he appropriate standard for resolving a challenge to an appropriation, whether under article VIII, § 1 or article VII, § 8 (1),” is that “an appropriation is valid where it has a predominant public purpose and any private benefit is merely incidental” … . Moreover, “it is undisputed that article VII, § 8 (1) permits the granting of public funds to public benefit corporations for a public purpose” … and expenditures for stadiums have expressly been found to have a public purpose …  Further, “[b]ecause public benefit corporations … benefit from a status separate and apart from the State, money passed to public corporations consequently cannot be subject to the article VII, § 8 (1) prohibition against gifting or loaning state money as such money is no longer in the control of the State” … . Matter of Schulz v State of New York, 2023 NY Slip Op 02575, Third Dept 5-11-23

Practice Point: Statutes allowing public funds to be used for the construction of a stadium for the Buffalo Bills are constitutional.

 

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