Matter of Williams v. Ponte

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the Deputy Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction dated January 30, 2015, which terminated the petitioner’s employment, the petitioner appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Taylor, J.), entered September 29, 2015, which denied the petition and, in effect, dismissed the proceeding without prejudice, for lack of personal jurisdiction.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The sole issue raised by the petitioner on appeal is whether the Supreme Court had the authority to…