Case Name: State Commission for Human Rights, on the Complaint of New York Urban League and John Gaynus, as Director of Operation Open City, Appellants, v. Edmund M. Speer, Jr., as Trustee under the Will of Edmund M. Speer, Deceased, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1971-07-06
Citations: 29 N.Y.2d 555
Docket Number: 
Parties: State Commission for Human Rights, on the Complaint of New York Urban League and John Gaynus, as Director of Operation Open City, Appellants, v. Edmund M. Speer, Jr., as Trustee under the Will of Edmund M. Speer, Deceased, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 29
Pages: 555–557

Head Matter:
State Commission for Human Rights, on the Complaint of New York Urban League and John Gaynus, as Director of Operation Open City, Appellants, v. Edmund M. Speer, Jr., as Trustee under the Will of Edmund M. Speer, Deceased, et al., Respondents.
Argued May 13, 1971;
decided July 6, 1971.
Alexander A. Kolben for appellants.
No appearance for respondents.
J. Lee Rankin, Corporation Counsel (Stanley Buchsbaum and Franklin E. White of counsel), for City Commission on Human Eights, amicus curiae.
Jack Greenberg and Sylvia Drew for NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., amicus curiae.

Opinion:
Order reversed, without costs, on the dissenting opinion at the Appellate Division and the matter remitted to the Appellate Division with directions to remand to the Human Eights Appeal Board to determine whether the award for damages was justified by the evidence. *
Concur: Chief Judge Fuld and Judges Burke, Bergan, Breitel, Jasen and Gibson. Judge Scilepfi dissents and votes to affirm in the following opinion.