Paterson Municipal Utilities Authority v. Hackensack Water Co.

How later courts describe this case

• holding that, in the context of a program to license teachers, concerns over a student’s ethical standards and ability to cooperate with superiors “are valid academic matters, because they rank as important measures of an individual’s ability to perform as a teacher”
• legislators' decision to replace plaintiff, a librarian and a member of a political party, with a member of another political party was an administrative, rather than legislative, act