Temporary State Study Commission v. Greenidge

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County, entered on or about July 24, 1972, affirmed, without costs and without disbursements. Our dissenting brother recognizes that the statute creating the Temporary State Study Commission (L. 1971, ch. 413), being in conflict with the earlier section 73 of the Civil Rights Law, would ordinarily control. To this may be added the axiomatic observation that, in areas of such apparent conflict, the general must usually yield to the particular. And, finally, the legislative intent in specifically reducing the numerical requirements of…