Reisig v. Kirby

This article 78 proceeding is brought to revoke and annul the decision of respondent, dismissing petitioner from her position as a permanent nurses’ aide at the Suffolk County Infirmary, which position entitled her to all of the rights and privileges provided for under the Civil Service Law of the State of New York. Petitioner’s discharge was based upon her commission of an act of alleged insubordination, in that she failed to obey an order of the superintendent of the infirmary (where she had been employed for approximately six years), which order directed her to return to work on December…