Brittain v. Village of Liverpool

OPINION OF THE COURT

Charles T. Major, J.

This is a CPLR article 78 proceeding wherein petitioners, Jon F. Brittain et al. (Brittain), seek to annul and set aside the actions of the respondents, the Village of Liverpool (Liverpool), the Board of Trustees of the Village of Liverpool (Board), and the City of Syracuse (Syracuse). It is a case of first impression concerning the rights of the citizens of a community to have input into decisions made by a village board which effectively abolish its own local police force by way of a purported contractual merger of its police "function” with another…