Matter of Williams v. City of New York

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Frank R Ñervo, J.), entered August 12, 2014, denying the petition to vacate the part of the arbitration award that terminated petitioner’s employment as a tenured school teacher, and dismissing the proceeding, reversed, on the law, without costs, the petition granted, and the matter remanded to respondents for imposition of a lesser penalty.

The evidence presented at the arbitration hearing establishes that petitioner, while an eighth-grade physical education teacher, initiated conversations with at least two of his female…