MATTER OF BUTTON v. ROCKEFELLER


76 Misc.2d 701 (1973)

In the Matter of Thomas Button, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Petitioner, v. Nelson A. Rockefeller, as Governor of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Albany County.

September 7, 1973


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sneeringer & Rowley, P. C. (Richard R. Rowley and Jeffrey G. Plant of counsel), for petitioner. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Grace K. Banoff of counsel), for respondents.


HAROLD J. HUGHES, J.

In this article 78 proceeding, petitioner seeks judgment restraining respondent Superintendent of the New York State Police from appointing as State troopers four women whose grades on an open competitive examination were lower than his, and directing that appointments to existing vacancies be based solely on the scores achieved by petitioner and others similarly situated on such examination.

On January 22, 1973, the Division...

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