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MATTER OF ALTMAN v. LANG

17 N.Y.2d 464 (1965)

In the Matter of Stanley Altman, Individually and as President of the Probation and Parole Officers Association of Greater New York, Appellant, v. Theodore H. Lang et al., Constituting the Civil Service Commission of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 30, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Weissberg for appellant.

Leo A. Larkin, Corporation Counsel (William A. Marks and Seymour B. Quel of counsel), for respondents.

Concur: Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, FULD, BURKE, SCILEPPI and BERGAN. Judge VAN VOORHIS dissents in the following memorandum.

Order affirmed, without costs.

VAN VOORHIS, J. (dissenting).

These candidates (having the prerequisite of a master's degree) were allegedly subjected to competitive civil service examination by being graded solely according to how many years they had undergone of supervisory, administrative or consultative experience in casework. That does not afford a reliable index of relative ability, at least after...

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