Legal Opinion
Eugene Margerum v. City of Buffalo
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 17, 2015No. 7PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Lippman.
We hold that a notice of claim need not be filed for a Human Rights Law claim against a municipality and that plaintiffs should not have been granted summary judgment on the issue of liability involving discrimination as to civil service lists for Buffalo firefighters. We therefore remit for further proceedings.
In 1974, the United States sued the City of Buffalo in the Western District of New York. Among other things, the suit alleged that the written civil service examination developed by the New York State Department of Civil Service and used by the…
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