Legal Opinion

Katz v. Hoberman

New York Court of Appeals

Decided January 7, 1971PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Memorandum. It is a “ fair argument ”, and this is the test of the arbitrariness with which the commission is charged (see Matter of Wirzberger v. Watson, 305 N. Y. 507, 513), first, that familiarity with the questions in dispute, and knowledge of the official answers to them, derived by some examinees from prior study of the 1962 Police Yearbooh could Well impair the competitiveness of the examination, and, second, that the possibility of the acquisition of such prior knowledge was not so unreasonable or so remote as to warrant the finding that the commission’s action was arbitrary. Our…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Wirzberger v. WatsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1953
  2. Chironna v. WatsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1952
  3. Chironna v. WatsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1952

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Kirkland v. New York State Department of Correctional ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
  2. Meana v. MorrisonAppellate Court of Illinois · 1975
  3. Mills v. BahouAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1976
  4. Kirkland v. New York State Department of Correctional ServicesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1982
  5. Desmond v. BahouAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1980

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