Dealing a blow to a rock concert promoter, the 2nd Circuit has rejected a constitutional challenge to New York state's Mass Gathering Law, which was passed in response to the chaos and unsanitary conditions at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival. Although the circuit reversed a judge who found that portions of the law and the New York Sanitary Code used to block a proposed concert in 2003 were facially unconstitutional, the promoters still have the chance to show the statute was unconstitutional as applied.
September 18, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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Dealing a blow to a rock concert promoter, a federal appeals court has rejected a constitutional challenge to New York state’s Mass Gathering Law.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court judge who had found that portions of the law and the New York Sanitary Code used by Suffolk County officials to block a proposed concert in Riverhead in 2003 were facially unconstitutional.
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