Goodfellow v. Bahou

— Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court at Trial Term (Conway, J.), entered March 5,1982 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioners’ application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to annul a determination of the Civil Service Commission reclassifying all deputy superintendent positions within the New York State Department of Correctional Services from the competitive to the noncompetitive class. Following the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility, an overhaul of the prison administration system was undertaken. As a consequence, the number of deputy…