Opinion
Argued September 5, 1979
Decided November 20, 1979
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, ROGER J. MINER, J.
Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Shirley Adelson Siegel, Dominick J. Tuminaro, Arnold D. Fleischer and Judith T. Kramer of counsel), for Hugh L. Carey, as Governor of the State of New York, appellant.
Ann Thacher Anderson for Office of State Contract Compliance, Division of Human Rights, appellant.
Robert G. Benisch, Robert J. Fink and Richard O'Hara for respondents.
Victor M. Goode, Alton Maddox, Jr., and Howard Lane for National Conference of Black Lawyers and another, amici curiae. M.D. Taracido, Kenneth Kimerling, Peter Bienstock and Idelisse Malave for Puerto Rican Legal Defense Education Fund, Inc., amicus curiae.
Order affirmed, without costs, for the reasons stated in the opinion by Mr. Justice J. CLARENCE HERLIHY at the Appellate Division ( 62 A.D.2d 798; see, also, Matter of Fullilove v Beame, 48 N.Y.2d 376, decided herewith).
Concur: Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES and WACHTLER. Judges FUCHSBERG and MEYER dissent and vote to reverse (see dissenting opn by FUCHSBERG, J., in Matter of Fullilove v Beame, 48 N.Y.2d 376, decided herewith).