Garrett v. New York State Athletic Commission

Petitioner Jacqueline Garrett, also known as Jackie Tonawanda, in this CPLR article 78 proceeding seeks a judgment requiring the respondents New York State Athletic Commission (Commission) and Edwin Dooley, commissioner, to issue a boxing license to the petitioner. Although prior to the institution of this proceeding, respondents had held petitioner’s application in abeyance, thereafter, by correspondence of January 20, 1975 respondents formally denied petitioner’s application. In notifying the petitioner that her application for a boxing license had been denied, respondents wrote the…