New York Consolidated Laws

N.Y. General Business Law § 342 (2026)

Action to restrain and prevent

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§ 342. Action to restrain and prevent.  The attorney-general may bring
an action in the name and in behalf of the people of the state against
any person, trustee, director, manager or other officer or agent of a
corporation, or against a corporation, foreign or domestic, to restrain
and prevent the doing in this state of any act herein declared to be
illegal, or any act in, toward or for the making or consummation of any
contract, agreement, arrangement or combination herein prohibited,
wherever the same may have been made.  In such an action, the court may
award to the plaintiff a sum not in excess of twenty thousand dollars as
an additional allowance.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1988–1988 · leading case: Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Abrams, 520 N.E.2d 535 (NY 1988).

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Anheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Abrams, 520 N.E.2d 535 (NY 1988). “The act authorizes the Attorney-General to bring actions "to restrain and prevent the doing in this state of any act herein declared to be illegal” or prohibited (General Business Law § 342). In the performance of these enforcement responsibilities, the Attorney-General is…”

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