Case Name: In the Matter of Linda Ziehm, Appellant, et al., Petitioner, v. City of Buffalo et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1983-05-11
Citations: 59 N.Y.2d 757
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Linda Ziehm, Appellant, et al., Petitioner, v City of Buffalo et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 59
Pages: 757–759

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Linda Ziehm, Appellant, et al., Petitioner, v City of Buffalo et al., Respondents.
Decided May 11, 1983
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Christopher J. Flynn for appellant.
John J. Naples, Corporation Counsel (Paul McCarthy of counsel), for respondents.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
The respondent commissioner concluded (1) that petitioner either was a resident of Buffalo on January 1,1977, or else was willfully concealing her nonresidence and (2) that under section 4 of chapter 1 of the Buffalo City Ordinances, as modified by the labor agreement, either ground would sustain petitioner's dismissal following her change of residence to Hamburg, New York, in 1979. There was substantial evidence in the record supporting either prong of the first conclusion and the testimony of the vice-president of petitioner's union supplied a rational basis for the second.
Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Jasen, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg, Meyer and Simons concur.
On review of submissions pursuant to rule 500.2 (b) of the Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR 500.2 [g]), order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.