Nash v. Board of Education

Petitioners move pursuant to article 78 of the Civil Practice Act for the immediate reinstatement in their positions as school teachers in the New York City Public School System from which they were suspended without pay in September, 1955 and for the dismissal of certain charges now pending against them.

Petitioners are honorably discharged members of the Armed Forces. In the course of an investigation pursuant to the Feinberg Law, the petitioners were questioned with respect to their membership in the Communist party. They admitted that they had once been members of the party but alleged…