Romero v. Joseph

Judgment of Supreme Court, New York County (Edward H. Lehner, J.), entered June 30, 1989, granting respondents’ cross motion and dismissing the CPLR article 78 petition, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Petitioners, former civil service employees, failed to meet their burden of demonstrating that their termination as provisional employees was arbitrary, capricious, in bad faith, or otherwise in contravention of the Civil Service Law or other applicable procedure. (See, Matter of Johnson v Board of Educ., 155 AD2d 896; Matter of Johnson v Katz, 116 AD2d 930, affd 68 NY2d 649.) Petitioners…