Legal Opinion
Knight v. Amelkin
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 20, 1986PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed and the matter remitted to the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Huntington for further consideration.
We have recently held that "[a] decision of an administrative agency which neither adheres to its own prior precedent nor indicates its reason for reaching a different result on essentially the same facts is arbitrary and capricious” (Matter of Field Delivery Serv. [Roberts], 66 NY2d 516, 517). Inasmuch as a zoning board of appeals performs a quasi-judicial function when considering applications for…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In re Charles A. Field Delivery Service, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1985
- Holy Spirit Ass'n v. RosenfeldAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1983
3Cited by56 opinions
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- Ass'n of Secretaries to Justices of the Supreme & Surrogate's Courts v. Office of Court AdministrationNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
- C & B Realty Co. v. Town Board of Oyster BayAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988
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