Jennings v. Walcott

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alexander W. Hunter, Jr., J.), entered on or about March 15, 2012, granting the petition to declare arbitrary and capricious respondents’ policy of deferring in educational decisions to the parent with primary physical custody, and ordering respondents to include petitioner as a joint legal guardian on his child’s school file, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the petition denied, and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 dismissed.

It is the policy of respondent Department of Education to take direction from the parent with…