Stich v. Wagner

This is an appeal in an article 78 proceeding wherein Special Term determined, among other things, that petitioners were entitled to certain pay increases and directed the respondent Board of Estimate of the City of New York to adjust the salaries accordingly to all of the petitioners who had signed their salary checks “ under protest ”.

The petitioners are Supreme Court stenographers within the First Department of the Appellate Division and in Kings County in the Second Judicial District of the Second Department of the Appellate Division. They receive an annual salary pursuant to section 306…