Case Name: In the Matter of James Krauskopf, Individually and as Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration, et al., Appellants, v. Cesar Perales, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1989-06-30
Citations: 74 N.Y.2d 730
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of James Krauskopf, Individually and as Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration, et al., Appellants, v Cesar Perales, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 74
Pages: 730–732

Head Matter:
In the Matter of James Krauskopf, Individually and as Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration, et al., Appellants, v Cesar Perales, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, et al., Respondents.
Argued June 1, 1989;
decided June 30, 1989
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Peter L. Zimroth, Corporation Counsel (Elizabeth S. Natrella and Pamela Seider Dolgow of counsel), for appellants.
Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Clifford A. Royael, Peter H. Schiff and O. Peter Sherwood of counsel), for respondents.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs. .
We agree, for the reasons stated by Justice Ann T. Mikoll at the Appellate Division (139 AD2d 147), that the Department of Social Services did not violate procedural requirements in adopting a definition of "mental disability" for the purpose of reimbursement eligibility pursuant to Social Services Law § 368-a; and that the definition adopted by the Department of Social Services is neither irrational nor arbitrary.
Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone, Hancock, Jr., and Bellacosa concur.
Order affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.