Perez v. Ward

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The determinations of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

In these article 78 proceedings, the dismissal of police and correction officers was upheld for their refusal to comply with orders to submit to urinalysis in connection with reported drug use. There is no dispute among the parties as to the standard that governs these cases, and therefore this court need not and does not pass on it: these parties have agreed that a public agency may lawfully order an employee to *842undergo urinalysis on reasonable suspicion of drug use. The central issue…