Green Cab & Brokerage Co. v. City of Rochester

Judgment unanimously affirmed, without costs. Memorandum: Petitioners appeal from Special Term’s judgment dismissing their petition in this CPLR article 78 proceeding to set aside a *803determination of the Rochester Chief of Police who, after a hearing, denied their application for renewal of a livery license and revoked their hack plates. Once a licensing authority has rendered its decision, the courts will only intervene when " 'as a matter of law * * * no valid ground exists for [the] denial’ ” (Matter of Barton Trucking Corp. v O’Connell, 7 NY2d 299, 308; Matter of Berger v Leach, 103 AD2d…