Legal Opinion
Merrill v. County of Broome
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 6, 1997PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Mikoll, J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Rose, J.), entered June 18, 1996 in Broome County, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint.
On April 2, 1996, plaintiff commenced this taxpayer’s action to determine whether defendant County of Broome was authorized to pay counsel fees incurred by certain employees of the County Sheriffs Department in defending a Federal civil rights action involving lengthy litigation in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York. The Federal civil rights action was commenced in November 1988 by petitioner and two of her…
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