Scheiner v. Board of Regents

Casey, J. P.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (initiated in this court pursuant to Education Law § 6510-a [4]) to review a determination of the Commissioner of Education which, inter alia, suspended petitioner’s license to practice medicine in New York for one year.

On or about March 28, 1985, petitioner, a physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology with an unblemished record of practice spanning 30 years, was found by the Commissioner of Health to be in violation of Public Health Law article 33. This finding was based on a formal stipulation in which petitioner admitted that on…