Gomez v. New York City Department of Education

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Sheila AbdusSalaam, J.), entered July 2, 2007, granting the petition and annulling respondent’s determination to permanently revoke petitioner’s school bus driver certification, affirmed, without costs.

On April 26, 2006, when petitioner, a school bus driver since 1998 with a previously unblemished employment record, reported for work, she was notified that she had been randomly selected to appear at a Queens laboratory for a drug test and that her failure to submit to such test on that date might result in her decertification. It is undisputed that,…