Matter of Russo v. Burke

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to compel the Commissioner of the City of Mount Vernon Police Department to reinstate the petitioner to his position as a police officer, with back pay, Richard Burke, John Roland, the City of Mount Vernon, and the Mount Vernon Police Department appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Adler, J.), entered August 14, 2013, as granted the petition to the extent of restoring the petitioner’s salary pending a final determination of any disciplinary charges and awarding the petitioner back…