Dachenhausen v. Crosson

OPINION OF THE COURT

Frank S. Rossetti, J.

This proceeding involves layoffs resulting from the State’s current fiscal crisis. By letters dated September 5, 1991, the petitioners and two other Associate Court Clerks (grade JG-23) employed at the Westchester County Supreme Court in White Plains were notified that their positions were being abolished and they were being displaced to Court Clerk positions (JG-18), effective September 26, 1991. State-wide 471 nonjudicial positions in the State’s Unified Court System were eliminated at roughly the same time and of these 24 were in the Ninth Judicial…