TROY, N.Y. – The same statute typically cited to bar cameras from the courtroom prohibits a citizen from videotaping a state tax hearing, an administrative law judge has determined.
Judge Frank W. Barrie said in a matter involving a New York City municipal worker that Civil Rights Law �52 prohibits taking motion pictures of any proceeding where compulsory testimony is taken in virtually any forum, including an administrative hearing. Mr. Barrie said there is simply no authority to provide the relief sought by Irwin R. Eisenstein of Brooklyn. However, while Mr. Eisenstein lost his battle to record a hearing, he succeeded as a pro se litigant in preventing what would have amounted to double taxation.
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