CITY OF NEW YORK v. DE LURY


23 N.Y.2d 175 (1968)

City of New York, Respondent, v. John J. De Lury, Individually and as President of Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association, Local 831, International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs, et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided November 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul O'Dwyer, John J. De Lury, Jr., W. Bernard Richland and Morris Weissberg for appellants.

J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel (Frederic S. Nathan, William M. Murphy and Laurence D. Cherkis of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion by Chief Judge FULD. All concur, Judges BURKE, BERGAN and KEATING on constraint of this court's decision in Rankin v. Shanker () insofar as the right to a jury trial is concerned.


Chief Judge FULD.

We recently decided, in Rankin v. Shanker (23 N.Y.2d 111), that public employees and labor organizations representing them were not entitled to a trial by jury in a criminal contempt proceeding for the violation of section 210 (subd. 1) of the Taylor Law.1 In so holding, we concluded...

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