MATTER OF BLYN v. BARTLETT


39 N.Y.2d 349 (1976)

In the Matter of Arthur E. Blyn et al., Appellants, v. Richard J. Bartlett, as State Administrative Judge, et al., Respondents. In the Matter of Joseph P. Acer et al., Appellants, v. Mayor of the City of New York et al., Respondents. (Proceeding No. 1.) In the Matter of Alfred M. Ascione et al., Appellants, v. City of New York et al., Respondents. In the Matter of Confidential Attendants Association of the Supreme Court et al., Appellants, v. Richard J. Bartlett, as State Administrative Judge, et al., Respondents. (Proceeding No. 2.)

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 1, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John I. Coster for Arthur E. Blyn and others, appellants in the first above-entitled consolidated proceeding.

Alfred S. Julien, Stuart A. Schlesinger and David Jaroslawicz for Joseph P. Acer and others, appellants in the first above-entitled consolidated proceeding.

Francis Bergan, Saul S. Streit and Richard L. Spinogatti for Alfred M. Ascione and others, appellants in the second above-entitled consolidated proceeding.

Joseph L. Forstadt and Alan Kolod for Confidential Attendants Association of the Supreme Court, appellant in the second above-entitled consolidated proceeding.

Michael R. Juviler, Michael Colodner, Joseph Milano and Johnna G. Torsone for Richard J. Bartlett, respondent in the first and second above-entitled consolidated proceedings.

W. Bernard Richland, Corporation Counsel (Rosemary Carroll, L. Kevin Sheridan and Leonard Koerner of counsel), for the remaining respondents in the first and second above-entitled consolidated proceedings.

Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES and WACHTLER concur in Per Curiam opinion; Judge COOKE dissents and votes to reverse in a separate opinion in which Judge FUCHSBERG concurs; Chief Judge BREITEL taking no part.


Per Curiam.

This case deals with the powers of centralized court administration under the unified court system, as these powers relate to the extent and manner in which the nonjudicial personnel staffing of the courts may be decreased; and, also, whether the positions of personal assistant to Supreme Court Justices and Civil Court Judges in the City of New York may properly be eliminated through the budget process...

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