Opinion
8949 5721 M-351 M-361 M-6520 M–6521 M–33 M–472 M–709 OP 165/18
04-09-2019
In re AES, et al., Petitioners, v. Arthur M. DIAMOND, etc., Respondents.
Jeffrey L. Solomon, PLLC, Jericho (Jeffrey L. Solomon of counsel), for petitioners. Letitia James, Attorney General, New York (Monica Schwartz Hanna of counsel), for Hon. Arthur M. Diamond, Hon. Hope S. Zimmerman, Hon. Thomas Adams, Hon. Randy Sue Marber, Hon. Alan D. Scheinkman and Hon. Harriet Weinberger, respondents. Wand & Goody, LLP, Huntington (Jennifer H. Goody of counsel), for Mark B. Lew, respondent. G. S., respondent pro se. Beth Ross, New York, respondent pro se.
Jeffrey L. Solomon, PLLC, Jericho (Jeffrey L. Solomon of counsel), for petitioners.
Letitia James, Attorney General, New York (Monica Schwartz Hanna of counsel), for Hon. Arthur M. Diamond, Hon. Hope S. Zimmerman, Hon. Thomas Adams, Hon. Randy Sue Marber, Hon. Alan D. Scheinkman and Hon. Harriet Weinberger, respondents.
Wand & Goody, LLP, Huntington (Jennifer H. Goody of counsel), for Mark B. Lew, respondent.
G. S., respondent pro se.
Beth Ross, New York, respondent pro se.
Renwick, J.P., Richter, Tom, Kahn, Moulton, JJ.
The above-named petitioners having presented a petition in the Second Department, transferred to this Court by order dated November 14, 2018, praying for an order, pursuant to article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules, now, upon reading and filing the papers in said proceeding, and due deliberation having been had thereon, it is unanimously ordered that the petition hereby is denied and the motions to dismiss the petition (M–361; M–351) are granted to the extent of dismissing the petition. Since petitioners failed to meet their burden of demonstrating a "clear legal right" to the relief sought, neither mandamus nor prohibition is available (see Matter of Holtzman v. Goldman, 71 N.Y.2d 564, 528 N.Y.S.2d 21, 523 N.E.2d 297 [1988] ; Matter of Rush v. Mordue, 68 N.Y.2d 348, 509 N.Y.S.2d 493, 502 N.E.2d 170 [1986] ).
In re AES v. Hon. Arthur Diamond
M–6521, M–33, M–472, M–709 Motions for disqualification of counsel and related relief denied.
M–6520 Motion to stay proceedings denied.