Ratigan v. Daemen College

Judgment unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly granted respondents’ motion to dismiss the petition challenging the determination dismissing petitioner from the physician assistant program at respondent Daemen College. “[I]n the absence of demonstrated bad faith, arbitrariness, capriciousness, irrationality or a constitutional or statutory violation, a student’s challenge to a particular grade or other academic determination relating to a genuine substantive evaluation of the student’s academic capabilities, is beyond the scope of judicial review” (Matter of…