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BD. OF EDUC. v. GOOTNICK

49 N.Y.2d 683 (1980)

Board of Education of Belmont Central School District et al., Appellants, v. Margery Gootnick et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 24, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Mandelkern, Bernard T. McGivern, Norman H. Gross and Henry F. Sobota for appellants.

Robert D. Clearfield and Paul E. Klein for respondents.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Shirley Adelson Siegel and John Q. Driscoll of counsel), in his statutory capacity under section 71 of the Executive Law.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and MEYER concur in Per Curiam opinion.

Per Curiam.

The issue in this case is the constitutionality of section 3020-a of the Education Law as amended by chapter 82 of the Laws of 1977. That amendment requires that the chairman of a panel hearing charges against a tenured person be chosen from a list furnished by the American Arbitration Association. Petitioners predicate their constitutional challenge on the contentions that the amendment to the bill which...

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