Choudhri v New York City Dept. of Educ.
2008 NY Slip Op 02004 [49 AD3d 299]
March 6, 2008
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, May 14, 2008


Touquir Choudhri, Petitioner,
v
New York City Department of Education, Respondent.

[*1] Solomon Rosengarten, Brooklyn, for petitioner.

Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York City (Drake A. Colley of counsel), for respondent.

Determination of respondent, dated May 5, 2006, which terminated petitioner's employment, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied, and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [Emily Jane Goodman, J.], entered January 10, 2007), dismissed, without costs.

There was substantial evidence in the record to support the charges of misconduct based upon petitioner's undisputed acts of insubordination relating to his excessive use of the Internet for nonbusiness reasons. Given that evidence, combined with petitioner's many disruptive absences, late arrivals, and early departures, the determination to terminate petitioner's employment was not so disproportionate as to shock the judicial conscience (see Matter of Martinez v City of New York, 281 AD2d 187 [2001]).

We have considered petitioner's remaining contentions, including that his due process rights were violated, and find them unavailing. Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Gonzalez and Acosta, JJ.