Tarigo v. Kaplan

Petitioners, employees of the Office of Civil Defense of the City of New York, seek to have declared null and void a qualifying examination given by respondents, constituting the New York State Department of Civil Service.

Petitioners have been employed in the Office of Civil Defense of the City of New York for periods in excess of one year, prior to 1961. In that year, the Legislature, recognizing the necessity of continuing vital services to avoid irreparable disruption of the civil defense program in the State, determined to make permanent certain civil defense positions, which were then…