Board of Education v. Farmingdale Classroom Teachers Ass'n

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1975-12-29

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Wachtler, J. This appeal, arising in the context of an apparently bitter dispute between a school district and a teachers’ association, concerns the seldom considered tort of abuse of process. The school district contends that the association and its attorney are liable for abusing legal process by subpoenaeing, with the intent to harass and to injure, 87 teachers and refusing to stagger their appearances. As a result the school…

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