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A Manhattan judge has dismissed Mayor Eric Adams‘s $700 million lawsuit against bus companies that transported more than 33,000 illegal immigrants to New York City, ruling the case “dubious at best.” The suit, filed in January, targeted 17 bus companies for allegedly violating state law by ferrying people from Texas to New York City. However, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Mary Rosado deemed the suit “unconstitutional,” citing the Interstate Commerce Clause.
Rosado’s Monday ruling stated that the city’s attempt to regulate the transportation of illegal immigrants across state lines violated constitutional provisions. The lawsuit hinged on a 19th-century “pauper’s statute,” which Rosado noted had already been…
