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In Matter of Board of Educ. of City of N.Y. v State Div. of Human Rights (35 N.Y.2d 675, affg 42 A.D.2d 854), the Court of Appeals affirmed an order of the Appellate Division which held that "a pregnant teacher who goes on maternity leave should be permitted to use sick leave and sabbatical leave to the same extent as other teachers suffering from a temporary disability for the duration of such disability" (emphasis supplied, 42 A.D.2d, at p 854).
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Argued September 10, 1974
Decided October 7, 1974
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department.
Adrian P. Burke, Corporation Counsel ( Ellen Kramer Sawyer and Milton H. Harris of counsel), for appellant. Ann Thacher Anderson and Henry Spitz for respondent.
Order affirmed, with costs, on the opinion by Mr. Justice JAMES D. HOPKINS at the Appellate Division in Board of Educ. of Union Free School Dist. No. 2, East Williston v. New York State Div. of Human Rights ( 42 A.D.2d 49, affd. 35 N.Y.2d 674). (See, also, Cleveland Bd. of Educ. v. LaFleur, 414 U.S. 632.)
Concur: Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, RABIN, STEVENS and WITMER.
Designated pursuant to section 2 of article VI of the State Constitution.