Manzi v. Kaplan

This is an article 78 proceeding to review a decision of the State Civil Service Commission which dismissed the petitioner’s appeal from a determination of the Acting Director of Pilgrim State Hospital demoting him from staff attendant to attendant in that hospital.

The gravamen of the petition is that the aforesaid Acting Director was without jurisdiction to sit as hearing officer and to render the determination which was the subject of the appeal. Petitioner also claims that the Acting Director deprived him of equal protection of the law by refusing his request to be represented by a counsel…