1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. N.Y.2d
  4. 23 N.Y.2d
  5. 23 N.Y.2d 1 (1968)
 

NEW YORK CENT. R. R. CO. v. LEFKOWITZ

23 N.Y.2d 1 (1968)

New York Central Railroad Company et al., Appellants, v. Louis J. Lefkowitz, as Attorney-General of the State of New York, et al., Respondents, and Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen et al., Intervenors-Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Reargued October 7, 1968.

Decided October 10, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Rogers, Gerald E. Dwyer, Caesar L. Pitassy and David F. Dobbins for appellants.

Thomas A. Shaw, Jr., Harold C. Heiss and Richard Cain for intervenors-respondents.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Joseph A. Romano and Ruth Kessler Toch of counsel), respondent pro se.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE and EAGER concur with Judge BERGAN; Judge BREITEL dissents and votes to reverse in an opinion in which Judges SCILEPPI and JASEN concur.

BERGAN, J.

This action was commenced in 1961 by the 10 major railroads operating in New York seeking a judgment declaring invalid on constitutional grounds the full crew laws then in effect (Railroad Law, §§ 54-a, 54-b and 54-c) and enjoining their enforcement. In a trial at Special Term commencing in October, 1964, there was a comprehensive factual examination into the reasonableness of the effect of...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases