Ass'n of Surrogates v. Bartlett

We hold that respondents may not be compelled to implement a decision of the Unified Court System Employment Relations Review Board that is outside the scope of the controversy before that board.

For over 20 years prior to 1972 the courts in the Appellate Division, First Department, had recessed over the Christmas-New Years holidays. The nonjudicial employees in the court system had never been required to charge the time off they thus enjoyed to their annual leave. In a departure from this past practice the Appellate Division canceled the court recess which would otherwise have been observed…