
    Robert D. Thoubboron et al., Appellants, v New York State Department of Civil Service et al., Respondents.
    Argued March 24, 1992;
    decided April 30, 1992
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Peter R. Kehoe for appellants.
    
      Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Frank K. Walsh, Jerry Boone and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondents.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the memorandum at the Appellate Division (175 AD2d 443).

Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Kaye, Titone, Hancock, Jr., and Bellacosa. Taking no part: Judge Simons.  