And let's ask current law society Treasurer Paul Schabas, whose 2015 Bencher candidacy website states: «I also opposed the Law Practice Program for creating a two -
tier licensing process.
Not exact matches
At the urging of state lawmakers and from Tioga Downs itself, Cuomo called for a new casino siting and
licensing process for the Southern
Tier.
The Southern
Tier and the Finger Lakes were considered one region during the
licensing process.
Nonetheless, on Friday, the governor, who has said he has no role in the approval
process, sent a letter to the State Gaming Commission asking that it reopen bidding for a fourth
license, in the Southern
Tier region.
In a letter to Cuomo released on Tuesday, Dwyer points to Cuomo late last week calling on the state's gaming facility location board to re-open the casino siting
process in order to award a fourth casino
license to a Southern
Tier - based project.
But Cuomo in January called on the siting board to begin a new casino siting
process for the «true Southern
Tier» with the goal of recommending a project for the region and issuing the final
license.
Days after the announcement, Cuomo — who had stressed he was playing no role in the casino siting project — wrote to gaming regulators asking that they re-open the RFP
process and consider a Southern
Tier - based casino with the still available fourth
license.
Sen. Tom Libous, the deputy leader of the GOP conference and a longtime Binghamton lawmaker with a good working relationship with Cuomo, had urged the state to re-open the bidding
process and give the fourth
license to the state's Southern
Tier.
ALBANY >> The board tasked with picking locations for casinos in upstate New York will consider Gov. Andrew Cuomo's request to reopen the bidding
process so a Southern
Tier applicant can get a
license, the board's chairman said Friday.
The four - member site selection board voted unanimously Tuesday night to open a new bidding
process for a fourth casino
license, but only in the Southern
Tier.
The 11 - page ruling, by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, found that the city had overstepped its bounds in requiring, as part of a
licensing process, that carwash owners buy a special bond within a two -
tiered system: $ 30,000 for those whose workers were unionized or employers who agreed to monitoring, and $ 150,000 for all others.
In my opinion, due
process is not met in the
licensing «appeal» which is really the first
tier fact finding hearing.»