County of Nassau v. Cuomo

In a hybrid proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to compel the New York State Department of Correctional Services (hereinafter the Department) to accept forthwith all State-ready inmates lodged in the Nassau County Correctional Center, and for a declaratory judgment that the Department has a duty to accept such inmates forthwith, the parties appeal and cross-appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Murphy, J.), dated November 1, 1984, which granted the petition to the extent of directing the Department to accept all State-ready prisoners within 14 days of their…