Phillips v. Kiepper

—In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the respondent New York City Transit Authority, dated May 8, 1995, terminating the petitioner’s employment as a probationary bus operator, the petitioner appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Held, J.), dated January 22, 1996, which denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

A probationary employee may be terminated without a hearing and without a statement of reasons in the absence of a showing that the termination was for a constitutionally…