IN RE: ARON LAW PLLC (2023)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

IN RE: ARON LAW PLLC, Petitioner–Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, Respondent–Respondent.

568 Decided: June 29, 2023

Kapnick, J.P., Gesmer, González, Higgitt, JJ.

Aron Law, PLLC, Brooklyn (Joseph H. Aron of counsel), for appellant. Sylvia O. Hinds–Radix, Corporation Counsel, New York (Kevin Osowski of counsel), for respondent.

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (William Perry, J.), entered September 12, 2022, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied the petition brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, to the extent it sought a recovery of attorney's fees and costs, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Supreme Court properly denied petitioner's request for costs and attorney's fees. Petitioner failed to establish that respondent had no reasonable basis for denying access to the requested records (see Public Officers Law §§ 87[2][e][i], 89[4][c][ii]; Matter of Lesher v. Hynes, 19 N.Y.3d 57, 67, 945 N.Y.S.2d 214, 968 N.E.2d 451 [2012]; Matter of Loevy & Loevy v. New York City Police Dept., 139 A.D.3d 598, 599, 33 N.Y.S.3d 185 [1st Dept. 2016]).

We have considered petitioner's remaining arguments and find them unavailing.

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