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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Wilfred D. Murtha, Appellant, against George P. Monaghan, as Commissioner of the Harness Racing Commission of the State of New York, Respondent.
    Submitted July 2, 1957;
    decided July 3, 1957.
   " Motion for reargument denied Motion to amend remittitur granted. Return of remittitur requested and, when r¿turned, it will be amended by adding thereto the following: Upon the appeal herein there was presented and necessarily passed upon a question under the Constitution of the United States, as follows: Appellant argued that the provisions of section-63 of the Pari-Mutuel Revenue Law (§ 40, as amd.; L. 1940, ch. 254, as amd.) are void as being violative of the Fourteenth Amendment, insofar as they prohibit appellant, as a public employee, from obtaining a license as a mutuel clerk at Roosevelt Raceway. The Court of Appeals held that the rights of appellant under the Fourteenth Amendment had not been violated.or denied. [See 2 N Y 2d 819.]