ALBANY – Police may not ask the occupants of a vehicle involved in a routine traffic stop whether they possess weapons unless officers have a “founded suspicion” that the passengers are engaged in criminal behavior, the state Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.
The court also decided that a time-consuming conflict-of-law analysis need not be performed to resolve a commercial dispute between two South American companies which chose New York law to govern their agreement and ruled in favor of the company that runs the DISH Network in its dispute with the New York State Tax Department over taxes allegedly owed on the company’s satellite dish purchases.
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