Case Name: In the Matter of Robert Buschmann, Appellant, v. United New York Sandy Hook Pilots' Association et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1975-12-22
Citations: 38 N.Y.2d 774
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Robert Buschmann, Appellant, v United New York Sandy Hook Pilots’ Association et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 38
Pages: 774–775

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Robert Buschmann, Appellant, v United New York Sandy Hook Pilots’ Association et al., Respondents.
Argued November 19, 1975;
decided December 22, 1975
Harry H Rains and Frederick D. Braid for appellant.
Frederick T. Shea and Ned H Bassen for United New York Sandy Hook Pilots’ Association, respondent.
Francis O’Regan, Donald M. Waesche, Jr., and Geoffrey W. Gill for Board of Commissioners of Pilots, respondent.

Opinion:
Order reversed, with costs in all courts, and the matter remitted to Supreme Court, Kings County, for a hearing, on the dissenting opinion by Mr. Justice J. Irwin Shapiro at the Appellate Division. The remedy under CPLR article 78 is appropriate if only because the organizational structure involved has been created in part by statute and its operations are to some degree regulated by statute in the performance of a public governmental function. In the light of the foregoing it is not necessary to consider the availability to private entities of the procedure under article 78.
Concur: Chief Judge Breitel and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg and Cooke.