By: Daily Record Staff//August 11, 2014
By: Daily Record Staff//August 11, 2014//
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Child Maltreatment
Driving While Intoxicated
Kordasiewicz v. Erie Cnty. Dpt. Of Social Services
CA 13-01679
Transferred from Supreme Court, Erie County
Background: The petitioner commenced an article 78 proceeding seeking to annul a determination that she committed maltreatment with respect to her two children.
Ruling: The Appellate Division confirmed. The court held that the respondent presented testimony of a caseworker who noted that the petitioner had been arrested for driving while intoxicated and that her two children were in the car with her when she was arrested.
David C. Crowther of Tronolone & Surgalla for the petitioner; Allyson B. Levine of the New York State Office of the Attorney General for the respondent