Court Opinion

ID: 5876575
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 02:02:36.774037+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:44:49.235111
License: Public Domain

Petitioner has sufficiently alleged that the investigator from the Office of Special Investigations acted in bad faith in making the determination that formed the basis for terminating petitioner. Therefore, respondent’s motion to dismiss was properly denied. However, the motion court erred in determining the merits of the proceeding without affording respondents an opportunity to serve an answer upon the denial of its motion to dismiss (see Matter of Samuel v Ortiz, 105 AD2d 624, 626-627 [1st Dept 1984]). Concur — Andrias, J.E, Friedman, Moskowitz, Freedman and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.