Legal Opinion
Semkus v. Coughlin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 28, 1988PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Mikoll, J.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Cobb, J.), entered August 20, 1987 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent reducing his rate of compensation for a prison job assignment.
In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, petitioner seeks an order reinstating him to a fourth module per day rate of pay which he was receiving in his employment as a prison library law clerk while an inmate at Otisville Correctional Facility and to recover back wages allegedly due him because of the…
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