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Nassau lawyers squabble over authority to request state opinions
Nassau County’s lawyers are squabbling over who has the right to ask for a legal opinion from the state attorney general’s office.
It started when Peter Clines, counsel to Democratic county legislators, wrote on March 14 to the state solicitor general in the attorney general’s office, asking for an informal opinion on a proposed 30-year “use and occupancy permit” in Mitchel Park.
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