Ripton v. New York State Department of Health

Petition granted, with costs, and matter *900remitted to respondent commissioner for further proceedings, in accordance with the following memorandum: Petitioner, a licensed physician, instituted this CPLR article 78 proceeding to review a determination of the State Commissioner of Health who, after a hearing, found petitioner guilty of violating the Public Health Law. The New York State Health Department caused to be served upon petitioner a notice of hearing and statement of charges which alleged that he had issued four prescriptions for controlled substances not in good faith and not in the…