MSSSV wins Article 78 petition for Town of Fishkill

In this action, petitioners were seeking an injunction prohibiting the Town of Fishkill from removing officers from the functional title of a Sergeant and replacing them with officers who had been hired from a competitive civil service list. The Court adopted our argument that the Town could not be estopped from enforcing the law which requires that sergeants be hired from a competitive civil service list. We also convinced the Court that a demotion from a functional title position is not a demotion within the meaning of the Civil Service Laws.

Michael A. Miranda and Maurizio Savoiardo worked on the case.