87 A.D.2d 707 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1982
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Conway, J.), entered June 2, 1981 in Albany County, which granted defendants’ motion for partial summary judgment. In June, 1976, defendants promulgated, pursuant to subdivision 6 of section 45 of the Correction Law, certain rules and regulations covering six different subject areas concerning county jails, one of which involved contact visitation (9 NYCRR Part 7008). Plaintiffs, 51 County Sheriffs in New York State, commenced this action on November 19, 1976 seeking declaratory and injunctive relief with respect to those regulations. A preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the regulations was in effect, having been granted by order of Special Term as to some of the regulations and extended by this court as to the other