Floyd v. City of N.Y.

Full title: In re Gregory FLOYD, Petitioner–Respondent, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, et al.…

Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

Date published: May 28, 2013

106 A.D.3d 623 (N.Y. App. Div. 2013)

965 N.Y.S.2d 714

2013 N.Y. Slip Op. 3772

Opinion

2013-05-28

In re Gregory FLOYD, Petitioner–Respondent, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, et al., Respondents–Appellants. In re Lillian Roberts, etc., et al., Petitioners–Respondents, v. City of New York, et al., Respondents–Appellants. In re Tom Klein, etc., Petitioner–Respondent, v. City of New York, et al., Respondents–Appellants. In re Michael Bilello, etc., Petitioner–Respondent, v. City of New York, et al., Respondents–Appellants. In re John T. Ahern, etc., et al., Petitioners–Respondents, v. City of New York, et al., Respondents–Appellants. In re Gene DeMartino, etc., Petitioner–Respondent, v. City of New York, et al., Respondents–Appellants. In re John Murphy, etc., Petitioner–Respondent, v. City of New York, et al., Respondents–Appellants.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel,New York (Michael J. Pastor of counsel), for appellants. Archer, Byington, Glennon & Levine LLP, Melville (Marty Glennon of counsel), for Gregory Floyd, respondent.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel,New York (Michael J. Pastor of counsel), for appellants. Archer, Byington, Glennon & Levine LLP, Melville (Marty Glennon of counsel), for Gregory Floyd, respondent.
Mary J. O'Connell, New York (Steven E. Skyes of counsel), for Lillian Roberts, James Tucciarelli, Kyle Simmons, Mark Rosenthal, Manuel Roman, Michael Coppola, Jon Bailey, Anthony Carter and Cornell Heyward, respondents.

Broach & Stulberg, LLP, New York (Robert B. Stulberg of counsel), for Tom Klein and Michael Bilello, respondents.

Green Burzichelli Greenberg, P.C., Lake Success (Harry Greenberg of counsel), for John T. Ahern, Sean Fitzpatrick, Stephen Melish, Joseph Colangelo and Augustino Martiniello, respondents.

Lichten & Bright, P.C., New York (Stuart Lichten of counsel), for Gene DeMartino, respondent.

Colleran, O'Hara & Mills L.L.P., Garden City (Carol O'Rourke Pennington of counsel), for John Murphy, respondent.

Judgments, Supreme Court, New York County (Manuel J. Mendez, J.), entered July 11, 2012, July 24, 2012, and July 26, 2012, annulling Mayoral Personnel Orders No.2012/1 and 2012/2, dated April 11, 2012, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Pursuant to the subject Mayoral Personnel Orders, the City issued rules reclassifying ungraded civil service titles subject to prevailing wage bargaining under Labor Law § 220 as graded workers subject to bargaining under the New York City CollectiveBargaining Law without complying with the procedures mandated by Civil Service Law § 20, i.e., notice, a public hearing, and approval by the State Civil Service Commission, which are applicable to those rules ( see Matter of Corrigan v. Joseph, 304 N.Y. 172, 185, 106 N.E.2d 593 [1952],cert. denied345 U.S. 924, 73 S.Ct. 783, 97 L.Ed. 1356 [1953] ).

MAZZARELLI, J.P., ANDRIAS, DeGRASSE, FREEDMAN, MANZANET–DANIELS, JJ., concur.