Matter of Zaharatos v. Thomas , 17 N.Y.S.3d 650 ( 2015 )

Matter of Zaharatos v Thomas (2015 NY Slip Op 07514)

Matter of Zaharatos v Thomas

2015 NY Slip Op 07514

Decided on October 14, 2015

Appellate Division, Second Department

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Decided on October 14, 2015 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
MARK C. DILLON, J.P.
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS
L. PRISCILLA HALL
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX, JJ.

2015-07067

[*1]In the Matter of John Zaharatos, petitioner,

v

Delores J. Thomas, etc., et al., respondents.

Cantor Coscia & Schustal, LLP, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Michael A. Coscia of counsel), for petitioner.

The Wallack Firm, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Robert M. Wallack of counsel), for respondent Maria Zaharatos.

DECISION & JUDGMENT

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent Delores J. Thomas, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, to fix an undertaking pursuant to CPLR 5519(c).

ADJUDGED that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed, 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 NY2d 12, 16). The petitioner failed to establish a clear legal right to the relief.

DILLON, J.P., CHAMBERS, HALL and HINDS-RADIX, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court