Case Name: John H. Mulroy, as County Executive and Chief Budget Officer of the County of Onondaga, Appellant-Respondent, v. Hugh L. Carey, as Governor of the State of New York, et al., Respondents, and Richard A. Hennessy, Jr., as District Attorney of the County of Onondaga, Respondent-Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1977-12-19
Citations: 43 N.Y.2d 819
Docket Number: 
Parties: John H. Mulroy, as County Executive and Chief Budget Officer of the County of Onondaga, Appellant-Respondent, v Hugh L. Carey, as Governor of the State of New York, et al., Respondents, and Richard A. Hennessy, Jr., as District Attorney of the County of Onondaga, Respondent-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 43
Pages: 819–823

Head Matter:
John H. Mulroy, as County Executive and Chief Budget Officer of the County of Onondaga, Appellant-Respondent, v Hugh L. Carey, as Governor of the State of New York, et al., Respondents, and Richard A. Hennessy, Jr., as District Attorney of the County of Onondaga, Respondent-Appellant.
Argued November 16, 1977;
decided December 19, 1977
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Ralph I. Greenhouse, County Attorney (Rudolph V. Parr,
Diané E. Tucker, Peter R. Eriksen, John R. Voninski and Raymond A. Meier of counsel), for appellant-respondent.
Richard A. Hennessy, Jr., District Attorney (John A. Orando, William J. Fitzpatrick and Bryan R. Hedges of counsel), respondent-appellant pro se.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Ruth Kessler Toch, Jean M. Coon, Peter D. Andreoli, Norman Hatt and Henry De Cotis of counsel), respondent pro se, and for remaining respondents.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
Order affirmed, without costs, for the reasons stated in the opinion by Mr. Justice G. Robert Witmer at the Appellate Division (58 AD2d 207).
In affirming, no view is expressed whether in any or all circumstances the exercise of the executive power to supersede an elected District Attorney would be beyond judicial review or correction in a direct or collateral action or proceeding brought or defended by the county or the elected District Attorney involved.