Green v. Board of Education

The petitioner is a custodian bus driver for the respondent school board. In February, 1973 he was disciplined by a four-day suspension and by being deprived of a bus-driving trip. In May he was disciplined by a two-week suspension. He seeks now, under CPLR article 78, to review those disciplinary actions, claiming that they were arbitrary and capricious in that they deprived him of his rights under section 75 of the Civil Service Law, which provides that proposed disciplinary action shall be preceded by written notice to the employee of the charges against him; that he shall have eight days…