| Today's post is shared from nypost.com/ A federal judge has ruled that a state law that extended time for 9/11 workers to file compensation claims for their heroic efforts is unconstitutional. Manhattan federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Monday dismissed claims filed in 2009 against the Battery Park City Authority by eight workers allegedly exposed to asbestos and other contaminants there during cleanup efforts after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Hellerstein found that “Jimmy Nolan’s Law” — named after a Yonkers-based carpenter and father of three who became very ill during Ground Zero cleanups — is unconstitutional as applied to the BCPA. The law was enacted by the state Legislature in 2009 after the quasi-government entity overseeing Battery Park City was able to get around liability by requiring notices of claims to be filed within 90 days after plaintiffs discovered their injuries. It gave the plaintiffs — whose claims were then time-barred — an additional year to file. The state Attorney General’s Office had intervened in the suits in support of Jimmy Nolan’s Law. |
