Legal Opinion
Cook v. City of Binghamton
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 15, 1979PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*328OPINION OF THE COURT
Wachtler, J.
The issue on this appeal is whether chapter 965 of the Laws of 1977 which diminished the statutory disability benefits for regularly employed firemen worked an impairment of rights guaranteed by the contract clause of the Federal Constitution, or by section 7 of article V of the State Constitution. The Appellate Division found that it did not.
The plaintiffs are paid firemen of the City of Binghamton and the Villages of Endicott and Johnson City. All were disabled by illness or injury incurred in the line of duty. Prior to the effective date of chapter 965 each…
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