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IN RE: Amy R. Gurvey, petitioner, v. Rolando T. Acosta, etc., respondent.
DECISION, ORDER & JUDGMENT
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent, Honorable Rolando T. Acosta, the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, to direct the Chief Attorney of the First Department Attorney Grievance Committee to produce to her certain documents. By decision and order on motion dated January 23, 2018, the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, transferred the proceeding to this Court. Motion by the petitioner, inter alia, for an order directing the respondent to vacate all orders entered by the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, since 2008 in proceedings involving the petitioner.
Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is
ORDERED that the motion is denied; and it is further,
ADJUDGED that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, without costs or disbursements.
The extraordinary remedy of mandamus will lie only to compel the performance of a ministerial act, and only where there exists a clear legal right to the relief sought (see Matter of Legal Aid Socy. of Sullivan County v Scheinman, 53 N.Y.2d 12, 16).
The petitioner has failed to establish a clear legal right to the relief sought.
LEVENTHAL, J.P., MILLER, LASALLE and BRATHWAITE NELSON, JJ., concur.
ENTER:
Aprilanne Agostino
Clerk of the Court
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Docket No: 2018–01366
Decided: April 11, 2018
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
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