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MATTER OF ANTONSEN v. WARD

77 N.Y.2d 506 (1991)

In the Matter of Gregory Antonsen, Respondent, v. Benjamin Ward, as Police Commissioner of the Police Department of the City of New York, et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 26, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor A. Kovner, Corporation Counsel (Fred Kolikoff and Larry A. Sonnenshein of counsel), for appellants.

Ira Cure and Thomas M. Kennedy for respondent.

Lawrence Kunin and Sara Toll East for State Division of Human Rights, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, KAYE, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur.

ALEXANDER, J.

Gregory Antonsen, a probationary police officer, has been dismissed from the New York City Police Department because he has Crohn's disease. Although the disease is currently in remission, the Police Commissioner contends that because there is a reasonable expectation that the disease will recur, rendering Antonsen unfit to perform the duties of a police officer, his dismissal did not violate the...

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