RODGERS v. KOCH, 67 N.Y.2d 821 (1986)

492 N.E.2d 785, 501 N.Y.S.2d 657

MADELINE RODGERS, as President of the Schomburg Coalition, et al., Appellants, v. EDWARD I. KOCH, as Mayor of the City of New York, et al., Defendants, and NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.Argued February 11, 1986
Decided March 20, 1986

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department, Robert E. White, J.

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Alton H. Maddox, Jr., for appellants.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Jerry Boone and Evelyn Tenenbaum of counsel), for University of the State of New York and another, respondents.

Lois D. Thompson for New York Public Library and others, respondents.

Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the memorandum at the Appellate Division (111 A.D.2d 727; see also, Matter of MFY Legal Servs. v Dudley, 67 N.Y.2d 706).

Concur: Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR. Taking no part: Judge KAYE.