Ring v. Langoon

OPINION OF THE COURT

Frank R. Bayger, J.

The plaintiffs in this proceeding are partially disabled Buffalo firemen who seek a preliminary injunction enjoining the defendant authorities’ implementation and enforcement of a *416March 8, 1978, directive ordering the plaintiffs to return to "light duty” with the city’s fire department, or suffer a termination of their benefits heretofore paid by the city under section 207-a of the General Municipal Law. Although there has been no answer served on behalf of the defendants, there is apparently no dispute that the plaintiffs’ respective disabilities were…