Legal Opinion
City of New York v. Cole
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 18, 1979PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs, the petition to annul the determination of the State Human Rights Appeal Board granted and the cross petition for enforcement dismissed.
Respondent State Division of Human Rights erred as a matter of law in determining that petitioner New York City Department of Social Services violated the Human Rights Law by unlawfully discriminating against complainant Thomas Cole, a special officer with the department, because of his disability. The Human Rights Law makes it an unlawful discriminatory…
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