MATTER OF BRETTON v. STATE OF NEW YORK


294 A.D.2d 226 (2002)

741 N.Y.S.2d 859

In the Matter of JAMES C. BRETTON, Petitioner, v. STATE OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents.

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

Decided May 21, 2002.


No basis exists for disturbing respondent's finding that the questions put by petitioner to the claimant in an unemployment insurance hearing, ostensibly to probe the credibility of her claim that she had been sexually harassed in her employment and therefore had good cause for leaving it, went far beyond the range of relevancy to petitioner's fact-finding duties. Such duties did not include "a sexual harassment inquiry of the type one would find before EEOC or DHR," and...

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