Epstein v. Board of Regents of University of New York

This is another case in which a doctor’s license to practice medicine has been revoked solely upon the testimony of paid departmental investigators. The effect of such evidence has been discussed in Matter of Weinstein v. Board of Regents (267 App. Div. 4), decided herewith. Here each investigator with obvious falsity, denied that she sought to trap petitioner, although each admitted that she gave him a false name and falsely stated to him that she was pregnant. Neither investigator was actually pregnant and one had passed the menopause. An abortion was never mentioned. The evidence is quite…