New York Court of Appeals
In the Matter of Edwin A. Pell, Jr. v. Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 1 of the Towns of…
May 15, 197434 N.Y.2d 222
Summary
The Court restated the limited scope of judicial review of administrative disciplinary sanctions, holding that courts may only overturn such sanctions when they are arbitrary, capricious, or so disproportionate as to be shocking to one's sense of fairness, and applied that rule to reverse the modifications of penalties in the Pell, Muldoon, Best, and Abbott matters while affirming the Chilson decision.