Creighton Johnsen & Giroux, Buffalo ( Jonathan G. Johnsen of counsel), for Buffalo Professional Firefighters Association, Local 282, IAFF, AFL-CIO, amicus curiae.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, Maryland ( Anson C. Asaka , Marshall W. Taylor and Kyhla D. Craine of counsel), for The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, amicus curiae.
Law Offices of Prathima Reddy LLC, Buffalo ( Prathima Reddy of counsel), and Amanda Keller , International Municipal Lawyers Association, Bethesda, Maryland, for International Municipal Lawyers Association and others, amici curiae.
Judges READ, PIGOTT and ABDUS-SALAAM concur; Judge READ in a separate concurring opinion; Judge RIVERA concurs in part and dissents in part in an opinion; Judges STEIN and FAHEY taking no part.
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief JudgeLIPPMAN.
We hold that a notice of claim need not be filed for a Human Rights Law claim against a municipality and that plaintiffs should not have been granted summary judgment on the issue of liability involving discrimination as to civil service lists for Buffalo firefighters. We therefore remit for further...
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