The orderly administration of justice requires that correction of litigation errors be left to the ordinary channels of appeal or review (see La Rocca v Lane, 37 NY2d at 579). [read post]

New York’s highest court, as it happens, has interpreted the New York Constitution as providing some modest across-the-board protection for religious objectors: [W]hen the State imposes “an incidental burden on the right to free exercise of religion” we must consider the interest advanced by the legislation that imposes the burden, and that “[t]he respective interests must be balanced to determine whether the incidental burdening is justified” (La… [read post]