Summary
In Maye, the court held that the city's program was invalid by restricting eligibility to residents of certain parts of the city and that the program violated the merit and fitness provisions of the Constitution.
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Argued June 4, 1973
Decided July 2, 1973
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, SAMUEL J. SILVERMAN, J.
Murray A. Gordon, Stuart Linnick and Robert A. Kennedy for appellants.
Norman Redlich, Corporation Counsel ( Stanley Buchsbaum and Edmund B. Hennefeld of counsel), for respondents.
Order reversed, without costs, on the opinion at Special Term and the judgment of Supreme Court, New York County, reinstated.
Concur: Judges BURKE, BREITEL, JASEN, GABRIELLI and JONES. Chief Judge FULD and Judge WACHTLER dissent and vote to affirm on the opinion at the Appellate Division.