Civil Service Employees Ass'n v. Nassau County Public Employment Relations Board

—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the Nassau County Public Employment Relations Board, dated January 4, 1999, which, inter alia, granted the petition of the intervenor Sheriffs’ Officers Association, Inc., to be certified as the negotiating representative of certain classes of correction officers employed by the County of Nassau.

Adjudged that the determination is confirmed, the petition is denied, and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, with costs.

In reviewing a decision of a public employment relations board, it is well settled that “ ‘the function…