Casey v. Conway

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Albany County, entered February 26, 1954, dismissing the petition. The petitioners challenged the action of the State Civil Service Commission in determining the relative weight to be given to various types of experience in a competitive civil service promotion examination, open to all court attendants, for the position of chief court attendant, Grade I, Court of General Sessions, New York County. The petitioners complain that the commission failed to follow its own announced standards of remoteness or closeness of experience to the duties of the…