N.Y. Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation Act § 14: Preference for actions or proceedings against the corporation

§ 14. Preference for actions or proceedings against the corporation.

Any action or proceeding to which the corporation or the people of the

state may be parties, in which any question arises as to the validity of

this act, shall be preferred over all other civil causes of action or

cases, except election causes of action or cases, in all courts of the

state and shall be heard and determined in preference to all other civil

business pending therein, except election causes, irrespective of

position on the calendar. The same preference shall be granted upon

application of the corporation or its counsel in any action or

proceeding questioning the validity of this act in which the corporation

may be allowed to intervene. The venue of any such action or proceeding

shall be laid in the supreme court of the county of Albany.