City of Hackensack v. Winner

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

HANDLER, J.

This appeal comes to us as a result of conflicting decisions by two State administrative agencies arising from their separate handling of a single controversy over which each had apparent jurisdiction. The case originated with a dispute between a municipality, the City of Hackensack, and several of its civil service employees, firefighters claiming that they had been improperly denied promotions to the rank of lieutenant in the fire department. The employees’ complaints related to their merit and fitness for promotion and were thus governed…