MATTER OF LICHTENSTEIN v. JANSEN


6 Misc.2d 1014 (1957)

In the Matter of Meyer Lichtenstein, Individually and as Chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of the Merit System of Appointments in the New York City Public Schools, Petitioner, v. William Jansen, as Superintendent of Schools of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

April 16, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Mark Levien for petitioner.

Peter Campbell Brown, Corporation Counsel (Robert E. Hugh and Isidore Heyman of counsel), for respondents.

Jules Kolodny for New York Teachers Guild, amicus curiæ


WILLIAM C. HECHT, JR., J.

Petitioner seeks an order compelling respondents to appoint principals and junior principals in direct order of their ratings regardless of sex and that the separate men's and women's eligible lists for each license be considered one list.

After an announcement by the Board of Examiners of the Board of Education that an examination would be held, 615 men and 289 women participated...

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