Melvin Howard Osterman
Age: 70
Summary: founding
partner of the Albany, New York law firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna
who was once a member of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's legal staff and
one of the architects of the important Taylor Law, which gave public
employees in New York collective bargaining rights while forbidding
them to strike and setting up graduated penalties for job actions.
Cause of Death: Severe reaction to insect stings he received while gardening
Born: September 26, 1934
Died: August 14, 2005
Location: Delmar, New York
