New York Civil Service Commission v. Snead

A three-judge District Court was convened in response to appellee’s complaint alleging that N. Y. Civil Service Law § 72 (1969), governing leave of absence for mentally unfit civil service employees, denied her the procedural due process guaranteed her by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Joined as defendants in her action, which sought both declaratory and injunctive relief, were the appellants Civil Service Commission of the State of New York and its members, and the city of New York.

The District Court sustained appéllee’s federal constitutional claims, and…