Melendez v. New York City Housing Authority

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Sheila Abdus-Salaam, J.), entered January 21, 1997, which denied defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint as time barred, unanimously modified, on the law, to dismiss plaintiffs’ second cause of action, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiffs assert that they were wrongfully terminated from their positions at the Department of Social and Community Services based on false allegations, published in an interview in El Diaro, that they used their employees to engage in partisan politics during working hours. Plaintiffs’ first cause of action…