Kaplan v. Kinzler

Required transfer to the Appellate Division of article 78 proceedings contesting Taylor Law (Oivil Service Law, art. 14) disciplinary hearings is the question here. It is a pertinent one, both because of the relatively sparse authority and the potentially large burden of cases. Indeed, this very proceeding is the test case for 38 more in one Farmingdale school district dispute.

The petitioner, Myrna Kaplan, is a teacher in the Farming-dale Public Schools who has been determined, after a hearing, to have participated in an illegal strike in March, 1972, and has been docked one day’s pay for the…