D'Angelo v. Executive Committee

OPINION OF THE COURT

Herbert Kramer, J.

This court holds that the right to select includes the right to remove.

In the absence of a controlling statute, bylaws or an incorporation by reference to a standard work on parliamentary procedure, an unincorporated association or a committee thereof may remove an officer at its pleasure.

*927Petitioner moves pursuant to CPLR article 78 and Election Law § 16-118, or alternatively for declaratory relief enjoining respondent Arthur Bramwell from acting as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kings County Republican County Committee, and declaring…