Legal Opinion
McKechnie v. Ortiz
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 13, 1988PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*971OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
This declaratory judgment action has its genesis in the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis. In an effort to mitigate its financial woes, the City laid off large numbers of employees, including nearly 6,000 members of its uniformed services, many of whom were rehired over the next five years, as the City’s finances improved. In 1982, the Legislature enacted Civil Service Law § 80 (7) (now Civil Service Law § 80 [8]) in order to restore certain rights to those employees who returned to City…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Ryan v. New York Telephone Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1984
- Wiggins v. Town of SomersNew York Court of Appeals · 1958
- People v. EptonNew York Court of Appeals · 1967
- McKechnie v. OrtizAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1987
3Cited by8 opinions
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- Frontier Insurance v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1993
- Cliff v. BlydenbergNew York Supreme Court · 1997
- Lehigh Portland Cement Co. v. New York State Department of Environmental ConservationAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994
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