The following excerpt is from Duverney v. State, 410 N.Y.S.2d 237, 96 Misc.2d 898 (N.Y. Ct. Cl. 1978):
"The supplementary and broad public right to relief under the Civil Rights Act must be considered distinct from any existing rights arising out of the common law. 'The same set of facts may give rise to violations of both federal statute and the state common law, But the rights are not necessarily coterminous and the essential criteria are not necessarily the same.' (Martin v. Duffie, 10th Cir., 463 F.2d 464, 467 (emphasis in original).
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