Opinion
February 15, 1996
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Fern Fisher-Brandveen, J.).
"Administrative determinations concerning position classifications are of course subject to only limited judicial review, and will not be disturbed in absence of a showing that they are wholly arbitrary or without any rational basis." ( Cove v. Sise, 71 N.Y.2d 910, 912.) Petitioners work in the Grievance Committee of the Second Department, under the titles of "Law Stenographer" or "Secretary". The title standard for Appellate Law Stenographers, to which petitioners seek reclassification, defines such persons as responsible for providing legal stenographic and typing services "to groups of appellate law assistants, Associate Justices, and administrative personnel located in an Appellate Division or Appellate Term of the Supreme Court". Limiting review, as petitioners would, to respondent's finding that petitioners are not "located" in an Appellate Division, we uphold such as rationally based on the premise that the primary work of appellate courts is to adjudicate appeals, and that the title standard is limited to personnel so engaged, in distinction to those employed by the Grievance Committees which are administrative adjuncts of the Appellate Divisions (Judiciary Law § 90), not so engaged.
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Ellerin, Rubin and Kupferman, JJ.