Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Ass'n v. Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Kupferman and Yesawich, JJ.,

dissent in a memorandum by Kupferman, J., as follows: Plaintiffs-respondents allege that the failure of defendants-appellants after September 1, 1974 to make public accommodations more accessible to physically disabled persons constituted unlawful discriminatory practices in violation of subdivision 9 of section 292 and section 296 (subd 2, par [a]) of the Executive Law. Those sections, when read together, prohibit the withholding or denial to disabled persons of any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges of, inter alia, all public conveyances…