Board of Education of Patchogue-Medford Union Free School District v. Patchogue-Medford Congress of Teachers

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

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

Respondent, asserting that petitioner had denied either a sabbatical leave or summer study grants to a total of 22 teachers in contravention of the collective bargaining agreement, sought to have the dispute submitted to arbitration. Petitioner then commenced this proceeding to stay arbitration claiming that a prior 1974 award between the same parties, denying the grievances of four different teachers seeking the same relief as these grievants, was res judicata of the present dispute.

Inasmuch as…