Matter of Buffalo Professional Firefighters Assn., Inc., IAFF Local 282(City of Buffalo)

2010 NY Slip Op 09716 [79 AD3d 1737]

December 30, 2010

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

As corrected through Wednesday, February 16, 2011

In the Matter of the Arbitration Between Buffalo ProfessionalFirefighters Association, Inc., IAFF Local 282, Respondent, and City of Buffalo,Appellant.

—[*1]Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo (Joshua Feinstein of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

Creighton Pearce Johnsen & Giroux, Buffalo (Jonathan G. Johnsen of counsel), forpetitioner-respondent.

Appeal from an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Erie County (KevinM. Dillon, J.), entered September 25, 2009 in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75. Theorder and judgment granted the petition to vacate an arbitration award.

It is hereby ordered that the order and judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmedwithout costs for reasons stated at Supreme Court. Present—Scudder, P.J., Carni, Lindley,Pine and Gorski, JJ.