Thompson v. Wallin

An appeal in each of these three cases presents for our decision the constitutionality of section 3022 of the Education Law (L. 1949, ch. 360) commonly known, and hereinafter referred to as the Feinberg Law.*

At the outset the fact should be noted that prior to the enactment of the challenged statute, the Legislature had prescribed statutory standards governing within the State not only the conduct of teachers and other employees in the public school *485system but also those persons employed throughout the broad field of State civil service. Thus we find that by the Laws of 1917, chapter 416,…