Orange County Deputy Sheriffs' Police Benevolent Ass'n v. Orange County

—In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75 to compel arbitration, the petitioners appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Peter C. Patsalos, J.), dated February 24, 2000, which denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Orange County, for a hearing and new determination in accordance herewith.

The Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in failing to conduct a hearing to determine if the petitioners had timely filed a demand for arbitration…