Legal Opinion
Siletti v. New York City Employees' Retirement System
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 7, 1975No. 75 Civ. 1364PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
LASKER, District Judge.
This is a civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U. S.C. § 1343(3) (4). Jurisdiction is predicated not only on § 1343(3) (4) and the Fourteenth Amendment but on 28 U.S.C. § 1331.
Siletti, a former patrolman in the New York City Transit Authority, was injured in 1969 when he fell down a subway station stairway. In 1970, he was retired on ordinary (non-service connected) disability benefits. Subsequently, his application for service connected disability retirement was denied by the defendant-New York City Employees’ Retirement System…
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