RANKIN v. SHANKER


25 N.Y.2d 780 (1969)

J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, on Behalf of the Board of Education of the City of New York, Respondent, v. Albert Shanker, Individually and on Behalf of the United Ffderation of Teachers, Local 2, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, Appellants. J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, on Behalf of the Board of Education of the City of New York, Respondent, v. Albert Shanker, Individually and as President of the United Federation of Teachers, Local 2, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, et al., Defendants, and Walter J. Degnan, Individually and as President of the Council of Supervisory Associations, et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 5, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph P. Katz for Albert Shanker and another, appellants.

J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel (Frederic S. Nathan, William M. Murphy and Victor P. Muskin of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges SCILEPPI, BREITEL and JASEN concur, Judges BURKE and BERGAN solely on constraint of Rankin v. Shanker ().


Per Curiam.

Our opinion in Rankin v. Shanker (23 N.Y.2d 111; see, also, Shanker v. Rankin, 393 U.S. 930 [denying application for stay]), when these same parties were before us in October of 1968, discussed and passed upon the precise question now urged by the appellants. It is wisely established, as we had occasion to say some 70 years ago (Matter of Laudy, 161...

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