New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc. v. Governor's Advisory Commission (71 N.Y.2d 964, 1988)

Motion for leave to appeal denied. Motion by Newsday, Inc., et al., for leave to appear as amici curiae dismissed as academic. The Court of Appeals restates the rule that denial of a motion for leave to appeal is not equivalent to an affirmance and has no precedential value (see, e.g., Matter of Marchant v Mead-Morrison Mfg. Co., 252 NY 284, 297-298 [Cardozo, Ch. J.]; Two Assocs. v Brown, 70 NY2d 792).