105 and Sec 109 are NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY DEFENSIBLE and DO NOT APPLY TO NASSAU OTB See NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3 and LIBN article below. A fun case for Ravi Batra Esq?

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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012

Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.

Ethics Panel Criticized

By JACOB GERSHMAN

A New York state ethics commissioner threatened to resign Thursday, saying the agency was illegally shielding the identity of donors to lobbying groups, including one allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The commissioner, Ravi Batra, issued a letter Thursday criticizing draft regulations for disclosing contributions to lobbying organizations that were approved this week by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.
Mr. Batra, a Manhattan attorney appointed by Senate Democrats, said the commission had abetted a "stealthy cloaking worthy of a Klingon warship in Star Trek." Known as one of the commission's more colorful characters, he was the only one of 14 commissioners to vote against the regulations and said he would sue to block them.
An ethics commission spokesman, John Milgrim, said the draft regulations are "wholly consistent with the law" and said all the other commissioners rejected Mr. Batra's opinion a "unfounded and inconsistent with the law."
The dispute arose over interpretations of an ethics law passed last year requiring some lobbying groups to disclose the sources of their funding. It was meant to address concerns about groups like the Committee to Save New York, which raised about $17 million last year and has spent much of it on advertising in support of the governor.
The commission ruled that lobbying groups would have to disclose only those donations that come in starting July 1, 2012 and won't have to identify those donors until Jan. 15, 2013. Because the law took effect on June 1, Mr. Batra said the groups should have to amend reports they filed on July 15 to show their donors. He said the regulations give lobbying groups extra time to hide donors and don't comply with the law.
Write to Jacob Gershman at jacob.gershman@wsj.com

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	RAVI BATRA
	THE LAW FIRM OF RAVI BATRA PC
	142 LEXINGTON AVE
	NEW YORK, NY 10016-8108
	United States
	(212) 545-1993


Year Admitted in NY:	1981
Appellate Division Department of Admission:	2
Law School:	FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL
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Next Registration:	Jun 2014

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