but old lawyers like Attorney General Eric Schneiderman well know that

a lawyer is nothing but an errand boy. You don't have to be a lawyer to know that NY PML Sec 105 and Sec 109 don't apply to Nassau OTB, violate the rights of New York State Bettors secured by NY Const Art 1, Sec. 3 and are vague indefinite and/or overly broad as the term Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday do not define one and only one Sunday in all years.  Johnathan Lippman should see that New York Bettors are free to bet at Nassau OTB any day of the year that there is a track running in the United States that they find appealing.  Lawyers lawyers everywhere and trash on the books like this?

§  109.  Supplementary  regulatory   powers   of   the   commission.
  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent  provision  of  law,  the  commission
  through its rules and regulations or  in  allotting  dates  for  racing,
  simulcasting  or in licensing race meetings at which pari-mutuel betting
  is permitted shall be authorized to:
    1. permit racing at which pari-mutuel betting is conducted on  any  or
  all  dates from the first day of January through the thirty-first day of
  December, inclusive of Sundays but exclusive of  December  twenty-fifth,
  Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday; and
    2. fix minimum and maximum charges for admission at any race meeting.
    * NB Effective October 1, 2012

Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m - New York Daily News

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Open On 1st Palm Sunday, Otb Rakes In $2m. BY JERRY BOSSERT DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER. Monday, April 14, 2003. New York City Off-Track Betting ...

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May 1, 2012

A New Lawyer’s Duty

New York State’s chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, announced on Tuesday a change in the state’s bar admission process that is both simple and potentially revolutionary. Beginning next year, the 10,000 or so prospective lawyers who pass the New York State Bar exam every year will be required to perform 50 hours of pro bono legal services before they are approved to practice law.

The requirement, which has been approved by the state’s four appellate divisions, will ensure that all lawyers starting out have some degree of real-world experience. It is also a practical way to foster a stronger culture of public service in the legal profession, while providing more assistance for the many hundreds of thousands of people without lawyers in the state’s civil court system. Like many states, New York allows law students to perform legal work under the supervision of faculty members or legal services groups.

In these hard financial times, the need for legal help among low-income New Yorkers has become a crisis. According to court data, 99 percent of tenants are unrepresented in eviction cases in New York City, 97 percent of parents are unrepresented in child support matters and more than 60 percent of homeowners in foreclosure cases attend the state’s mandated settlement conferences without the benefit of legal counsel. Requiring would-be lawyers to do 50 hours of pro bono service is a modest requirement. While many law schools have courtroom-based clinical programs, the new rule would add a few hundred thousand more hours of legal help for those in need. If other states follow New York’s lead, the impact nationally could be substantial.

This initiative, however, is no substitute for more federal and state support of legal aid for the poor, or for other moves, like expanding law school loan-forgiveness programs to help graduates who work in legal services offices. Still, requiring new lawyers to demonstrate their commitment to the profession’s ideals of service is a worthy step in the right direction. 

Teamsters Local 707 and Kevin McCaffrey a union and its President that are against the freedom to chose whether to work or not while you still can. Unions sometimes as useless as lawyers or