Case Name: In the Matter of Godfrey Waldron, Petitioner, v. New York City Transit Authority, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1998-02-23
Citations: 247 A.D.2d 623
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Godfrey Waldron, Petitioner, v New York City Transit Authority, Respondent.
Judges: Bracken, J. P., Santucci, Altman and McGinity, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 247
Pages: 623–624

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Godfrey Waldron, Petitioner, v New York City Transit Authority, Respondent.
[668 NYS2d 491]

Opinion:
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the respondent New York City Transit Authority, dated August 9, 1996, which, after a hearing, found the petitioner guilty of certain disciplinary charges and demoted him from his position as a Yard Dispatcher to a Train Operator.
Adjudged that the determination is confirmed and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, with costs.
The respondent's determination that the petitioner negligently performed his duties as a train dispatcher is supported by substantial evidence. Moreover, the penalty of a two-Civil Service-grade demotion from Yard Dispatcher to Train Operator is not so disproportionate to the offense as to be shocking to one's sense of fairness (see, Matter of Pell v Board of Educ., 34 NY2d 222, 233; Matter of Smith v Board of Educ., 231 AD2d 528).
Bracken, J. P., Santucci, Altman and McGinity, JJ., concur.