Case: Individual Employment Rights/Procedural Due Process (N.Y. Sup. Ct.)

A New York Supreme Court in Westchester County granted an accounting professor’s petition under Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules to annul Mercy University’s termination decision, finding the university president’s determination was arbitrary and capricious for failing to provide any explanation for rejecting the faculty grievance committee’s recommendation for reinstatement, and concluding that termination was shocking to one’s sense of fairness where no statutory requirement mandated CPA registration for teaching and dismissal was improperly pursued as the first and only disciplinary action.

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