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· 12/15/1932

Apter v. Apter

Citations

  • 237 A.D. 848

How courts have described this case

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  • observing that legislative bodies do not \hide elephants in mouseholes\
  • observing that legislative bodies do not \hide elephants in mouseholes\
  • Court of Appeals has “declined to recognize a private right of action in instances where [t]he Legislature specifically considered and expressly provided for enforcement mechanisms’ in the statute itself”
  • “We have repeatedly recognized the third as the most important . . .”
  • private right of action was inconsistent with the legislative scheme when “recognition of such a right [would not] be compatible with the comprehensive enforcement mechanisms the legislature included elsewhere” in the statute at issue
  • “The fact that a judgment creditor may be able to bring a plenary action to punish a bank’s contemptuous failure to honor a restraining notice does not establish that noncompliance with other technical aspects of CPLR article 52 can give rise to a plenary action for money damages[.]”

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