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SOFAIR v. UPSTATE MED. CTR.

44 N.Y.2d 475 (1978)

In the Matter of E. Ezra Sofair, Respondent, v. State University of New York Upstate Medical Center College of Medicine, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided May 31, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Sidney L. Grossman, Ruth Kessler Toch and Anne S. Meadvin of counsel), for appellant.

Richard W. Cook for respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, WACHTLER and COOKE concur with Judge JONES; Judge FUCHSBERG dissents and votes to affirm in a separate opinion.

JONES, J.

We conclude that the procedures followed by Upstate Medical Center College of Medicine when petitioner was dropped as a medical student for academic cause were not such as to deny him due process of law in violation of the provisions of our Federal and State Constitutions.

In this article 78 proceeding, instituted for an order directing the College of Medicine to reinstate petitioner in the...

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