Weinstein v. Department of Education of New York

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Sheila AbdusSalaam, J.), entered January 16, 2004, which, in a proceeding pursuant to Education Law § 3020-a (5) and CPLR 7511 to vacate an impartial hearing officer’s determination, dated March 6, 2003, finding that petitioner teacher committed corporal punishment and that there is just cause for terminating his employment, granted the petition to the extent of remanding the matter to respondent for imposition of a lesser penalty and denied respondent’s cross motion to dismiss the petition, unanimously modified, on the law, to grant the petition in…