Case Name: In the Matter of Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York et al., Appellants, against Robert F. Wagner, Individually and as Mayor of the City of New York, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1960-02-25
Citations: 7 N.Y.2d 967
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York et al., Appellants, against Robert F. Wagner, Individually and as Mayor of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 967–967

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York et al., Appellants, against Robert F. Wagner, Individually and as Mayor of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.
Submitted February 23, 1960;
decided February 25, 1960.

Opinion:
Motion to amend remittitur granted. Return of remittitur requested and, when returned, it will he amended hy adding thereto the following: Upon the appeal herein there was presented and necessarily passed upon a question under the Constitution of the United States, viz.: Appellants contended that the exclusion of policemen from the grievance procedure provisions of Executive Order 49 violated the rights of appellants to the equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The Court of Appeals held that the exclusion of policemen from the grievance procedure provisions of Executive Order 49 did not violate those rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. [See 7 N Y 2d 813.]