Case Name: In the Matter of Michael Branigan, Appellant, v. Howard Safir, as Police Commissioner of City of New York, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-02-03
Citations: 269 A.D.2d 165
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Michael Branigan, Appellant, v Howard Safir, as Police Commissioner of City of New York, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 269
Pages: 165–166

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Michael Branigan, Appellant, v Howard Safir, as Police Commissioner of City of New York, et al., Respondents.
[701 NYS2d 900]

Opinion:
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Helen Freedman, J.), entered on or about July 19, 1999, which denied petitioner's application to annul respondents' determination terminating petitioner's employment as a probationary police officer, and dismissed the petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
For the reasons stated in Matter of Williams v Safir (265 AD2d 182), we reject petitioner's argument that because of McKinney's Unconsolidated Laws of NY § 891 (L 1940, ch 834), he could not be terminated without a hearing. Concur — Nardelli, J. P., Rubin, Andrias, Buckley and Friedman, JJ.