New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc. v. Carey

In this action for an injunction, the plaintiff, a taxpayers’ corporation, seeks preliminarily to restrain the Governor from retaining certain officeholders, and the Comptroller from paying their salaries, on the ground that their positions have been effectively abolished by the legislative enactment of appropriation bill S 7281-A 9251,1 in a reduced lump sum form, after legislative fiscal committees had recommended that these positions and certain programs be abolished.

Prior to such enactment these committees reviewed the requests of different executive departments and in some instances…