Reno v. Van Voris

OPINION OF THE COURT

White, J.

In January 1978, petitioner was appointed as a Town Court Clerk by the Town Board of the Town of East Greenbush in Rensselaer County. She was reappointed annually and in 1988 was appointed Senior Town Court Clerk. She served in that position, assisting both Town Justices, until March 1996 when she was appointed as Court Clerk to Town Justice Charles Assini, Jr. and began working solely under his direction. Apparently as a result of problems identified in a State audit, Town Justice Catherine Cholakis, the other East Greenbush Town Justice who had taken office on…