Kramarsky v. City of New York Police Department

Petitioner, Chairman of the State Division on Human Rights, moves to restrain the city police department from making any further temporary appointments to the department pending the determination of the complaints filed with it. In brief, the facts are as follows:

By reason of the fiscal stringency facing the city, the police department was required, on June 30, 1975, to lay off 2,864 police officers. Additionally, the department was required to meet an attrition quota of 3,000 police officers during the period 1975-1977. Both quotas were met. However, asserts the department, by consequence of…