# Wholesale Laundry Board of Trade, Inc. v. City of New York

> New York Court of Appeals · February 28, 1963 · 12 N.Y.2d 998

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5520600

## Case

- **Full name:** Wholesale Laundry Board of Trade, Inc., and Blake Laundry, Inc., Intervenors-Respondents v. City of New York, Appellant New York State Restaurant Association, Inc. v. City of New York
- **Court:** New York Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** February 28, 1963
- **Citations:** 12 N.Y.2d 998; 189 N.E.2d 623
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Judges:** Dye, Fuld
- **Cited by:** 66 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that a local law requiring a minimum wage higher than state law “neither prohibits what the [s]tate statute affirmatively permits nor permits what it prohibits” and that minimum wage acts are prohibitory, not permissive, such that a local law imposing higher standards …

## Opinion text

In each action: Judgment affirmed, without costs, upon the opinion (17 A D 2d 327) in the Appellate Division.
Concur: Chief Judge Desmond and Judges Van Voorhis, Burke and Foster. Judges Dye, Fuld and Scileppi dissent and vote to reverse; Judge Dye in an opinion in which Judges Fuld and Scileppi concur and Judge Fuld in a separate opinion in which Judges Dye and Scileppi concur.

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