Reale v. Patrolmen's Benevolent Ass'n of New York City Transit Police Department

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Ostrau, J.), entered September 21, 1981 which stayed respondents from conducting a disciplinary hearing against petitioner upon the ground that the charges filed against him constituted an infringement of his rights under the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution, and for other reasons, unanimously reversed, on the law and in the exercise of discretion, without costs, and the petition dismissed. Petitioner is, and for nine years has been, a member of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the New York City Transit Police Department…