City University of New York v. Marva Banks-Fretheim

Judgment (denominated order) of the Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Fingerhood, J.), entered August 9, 1989, which granted the petition pursuant to CPLR 7503 (b) for a stay of arbitration, unanimously affirmed, without costs and without disbursements.

Respondent Marva Banks-Fretheim, a former nursing professor, was denied tenure by petitioner the City University of New York. Step 1 and step 2 grievance hearings were brought on respondent’s behalf pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement between the university and respondent’s union, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC). Under the…