Customers who sign up for Snapshot can withdraw from the program at any time.
He was the second player to withdraw from the program this season, after Nurideen Lindsey left in December.
But because states can at least theoretically withdraw from the program, Judge Vinson wrote that the law currently "provides very little support" for the argument.
But Herbert D. Freedman, a principal in Marion Scott, predicted that about 20percentt of the buildings that get project-based Section 8 subsidies in New York City would withdraw from the program.
Sergeant Turetzky said that he had forged paperwork to inflate his credentials in 1992 when he was a 21-year-old apprentice in a hospital's paramedic program, and as a result he was forced to withdraw from the program.
In recent months, critics of the plan, including immigrant advocates and some elected officials, have urged the governor to withdraw from the program, saying it would mostly ensnare illegal immigrants with low-level convictions or no criminal history at all.
In his letter, Mr. Romero said that the group would withdraw from the program and reject the $500,000 it expected to receive this year and that it was contemplating legal action.
American officials had expressed concerns that the Brussels banking consortium that provides access to the database might withdraw from the program if its role were disclosed, particularly in light of anti-American sentiment in some parts of Europe.
When the governors of New York, Massachusetts and Obama's own State of Illinois – solidly Democratic Obama territory – tried to withdraw from the program, the president told them participation by their states, counties and cities is mandatory.
There has been persistent speculation that the mammoth Co-op City and Roosevelt Island, both of them Mitchell-Lama projects sponsored by New York State, plan to withdraw from the program.
