Source: The New York Times

On February 27, 2003 The New York Times reported that "two days after the United States Supreme Court effectively struck down New York State's kosher food laws, Gov. George E. Pataki said yesterday that he would propose new legislation that would replace the law's explicit religious criteria with more neutral language tying inspections to 'consumer expectations and trade standards...' The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in May that the state's laws created an excessive entanglement between the state and religion. Without comment on Monday, the Supreme Court rejected appeals of that decision by Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Orthodox Jewish organizations."