MATTER OF SOKOL v. NEW YORK CITY CIVIL SERV. COMMN.

8463. 160141/16.

169 A.D.3d 552 (2019)

92 N.Y.S.3d 646

2019 NY Slip Op 01314

In the Matter of Sean Sokol, Appellant, v. New York City Civil Service Commission et al., Respondents.

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

Decided February 21, 2019.


"Wide discretion is afforded to civil service commissions in determining the fitness of candidates," and "[t]he exercise of that discretion is to be sustained unless it has been clearly abused" (Matter of Smith v City of New York, 228 A.D.2d 381, 383 [1st Dept 1996] [internal quotation marks omitted], lv denied 89 N.Y.2d 806 [1997]). Petitioner fails to show that the finding that...

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