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MATTER OF PEOPLES v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY

281 A.D.2d 259 (2001)

723 N.Y.S.2d 6

In the Matter of MARY PEOPLES, Petitioner, v. NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided March 20, 2001.

This Court has the authority to review an administrative sanction that "shocks the judicial conscience and, therefore, constitutes an abuse of discretion as a matter of law" (Matter of Featherstone v Franco, 95 N.Y.2d 550, 554). The drastically disproportionate remedy of expelling petitioner from her home for this incident, after her long and unblemished tenancy, amounts to such an abuse of discretion (see, Matter of Holiday v...

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