The Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled 4-3 that New York's ethics commission was not formed in violation of the state constitution, overturning two lower court rulings in a long-running legal battle between former Gov.

New York’s highest court rejected the former governor’s push to undermine an ethics commission that had been investigating a $5.1 million book deal he received for a memoir.

The Court of Appeals ruled the structure of the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government does not violate the separation of powers laid out in the state constitution.