Chavis v. Senkowski

—Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Lewis, J.), entered December 14, 1993 in Clinton County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent which, inter alia, denied petitioner’s request for back pay.

Petitioner, an inmate, filed a grievance complaint requesting a raise and back pay for his prison job in the facility’s law library, contending that his high school education merited a higher rate of pay. Petitioner’s graduate equivalency diploma was subsequently verified and petitioner was instructed to…