Sanford v. Rockefeller

These cases are again before us as a result of the United States Supreme Court’s vacatur of our prior decision, accompanied by the direction to reconsider the issues in light of Arnett v. Kennedy (416 U. S. 134). The issues, to be more narrowly defined hereinafter, concern the adequacy of the procedural safeguards contained in section 210 of the Civil Service Law, often referred to as the Taylor Law, which, in summary, provides that a public employee, found by an executive officer to have engaged in a strike, may be summarily penalized by the imposition of a fine and placement on one year’s…