Case Name: In the Matter of Meyer Lichtenstein, Individually and as Chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of the Merit System of Appointments in the New York City Public Schools, Respondent, against William Jansen, as Superintendent of Schools of the City of New York, et al., Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1959-03-05
Citations: 5 N.Y.2d 995
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Meyer Lichtenstein, Individually and as Chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of the Merit System of Appointments in the New York City Public Schools, Respondent, against William Jansen, as Superintendent of Schools of the City of New York, et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 995–997

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Meyer Lichtenstein, Individually and as Chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of the Merit System of Appointments in the New York City Public Schools, Respondent, against William Jansen, as Superintendent of Schools of the City of New York, et al., Appellants.
Argued November 19, 1958;
decided March 5, 1959.
Peter Campbell Brown, Corporation Counsel (Isidore Heyman, Seymour B. Quel and Robert E. Hugh of counsel), for appellants.
A. Mark Levien for respondent.
Frank E. Karelsen, Robert M. Benjamin and Fred N. Fishman for Public Education Association, amicus curies, in support of respondent’s position.
Jules Kolodny for New York Teachers Guild, amicus curies, in support of respondent’s position.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.
Concur: Chief Judge Conway and Judges Fold, Froessel, Van Voorhis and Burke. Judge Dye dissents and votes to reverse. Taking no part: Judge Desmond.