Gimprich v. Board of Education

Lewis, Ch. J.

(dissenting). The action of the board of examiners in denying petitioner’s application for credit based on her “ outside ” teaching experience was not, in my view, quasi-judicial in nature. That decision was reached without a hearing and without the presentation of proof. It appears, in fact, to have been an ex parte decision by the board. Such a decision cannot rightly be characterized as quasi-judicial; rather is it administrative. (People ex rel. Copcutt v. Board of Health, 140 N. Y. 1, 6, 10; People ex rel. Lodes v. Department of Health, 189 N. Y. 187, 194-196; Matter of…