Sandiford v. City of New York Department of Education

Saxe and Catterson, JJ.,

dissent in a memorandum by Catterson, J., as follows: I must respectfully dissent. The plaintiff school aide did not challenge a grievance decision which concluded that she had engaged in inappropriate conduct with a 16-year-old female student, yet now argues that her termination was based on her sexual orientation and so was discriminatory and retaliatory. In my opinion, the plaintiffs attempt to inoculate herself against the consequences of her inappropriate conduct must be rejected: as set forth more fully below, well-established precedent upholds termination of…