SEC'YS v. COURT ADMIN


75 N.Y.2d 460 (1990)

In the Matter of the Association of Secretaries to Justices of the Supreme and Surrogate's Courts in the City of New York, Respondent-Appellant, v. Office of Court Administration of the State of New York et al., Appellants-Respondents, et al., Defendants. In the Matter of the New York State Court Clerks Association et al., Respondents, v. Harry G. Himber et al., Constituting the Classification Review Board of the Unified Court System of the State of New York, et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Colodner, John Eiseman and Patricia P. Satterfield for Office of Court Administration and another, appellants-respondents in the first above-entitled matter.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Lillian Z. Cohen, O. Peter Sherwood and Lawrence S. Kahn of counsel), for Classification Review Board, appellant-respondent in the first above-entitled matter.

David Rosenberg and Laurie L. Lau for respondent-appellant in the first above-entitled matter.

Nancy E. Hoffman and Marilyn S. Dymond for Civil Service Employees Association, Inc., Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO, amicus curiae in the first above-entitled matter.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Lillian Z. Cohen, O. Peter Sherwood and Lawrence S. Kahn of counsel), for Harry G. Himber and others, appellants in the second above-entitled matter.

Michael Colodner, John Eiseman and Barbara Zahler-Gringer for Chief Administrative Judge, appellant in the second above-entitled matter.

Owen McGivern, Paul A. Crotty and Kent E. Frankstone for New York State Court Clerks Association, respondent in the second above-entitled matter.

Joyce M. Ward, pro se, amicus curiae in the second above-entitled matter.

Judges KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur; Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judge BELLACOSA taking no part.


SIMONS, J.

These proceedings arise out of the classification of positions and allocation of salary grades for: (1) secretaries working for Judges in trial and appellate courts and (2) clerks in those courts. In each case, the Chief Administrative Judge had differentiated between employees at different court levels. On appeal, the Classification Review Board (the Board) confirmed the Chief Administrative Judge...

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