Legal Opinion
MATTER OF NEW YORK STATE DEP'T OF MENTAL HYGIENE v. State Div. of Human Rights
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 24, 1985PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
On April 8, 1976, in the course of employment interviews by Kings Park Psychiatric Center, complainant was asked whether he had ever been arrested. He informed the interviewers that he had been arrested for petit larceny in January 1975, but that the charge had been disposed of by an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (see, CPL 170.55). The interviewers assured him that such a disposition was "nothing to worry about” and, indeed, he was hired and commenced his probationary period of…
2Cited by6 opinions
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