Benedetto v. Commissioner of Education

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (initiated in this court pursuant to Education Law § 6510 [5]) to review determinations of respondent Commissioner of Education which, inter alia, suspended the licenses of petitioners Lawrence R. Benedetto and Maurice Sander to practice pharmacy in New York for two years.

Petitioners Lawrence R. Benedetto and Maurice Sander were licensed pharmacists who owned and operated petitioner West Sayville Pharmacy in Suffolk County. An investigation by the State revealed that, from 1982 through 1984, petitioners failed to keep adequate prescription records. As a…