Opinion
October 22, 2001.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent Justice W. Bromley Hall to vacate the dismissal of an action entitled JLJ Recycling Contractors Corp. v. Town of Babylon, brought in the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, under Index No. 94/8433.
Gutman Gutman, Port Washington, N.Y., for petitioner.
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney-General, New York, N.Y. (Susan M. Barbour of counsel), for respondent W. Bromley Hall.
Berkman, Henoch, Peterson Peddy, P.C., Garden City, N Y (Joseph E. Macy of counsel), for respondent Town of Babylon.
Before: MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, J.P., SONDRA MILLER, LEO F. McGINITY, HOWARD MILLER, STEPHEN G. CRANE, JJ.
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 when there exists a clear legal right to the relief sought (see, Matter of Legal Aid Society of Sullivan County v. Scheinman, 53 N.Y.2d 12, 16). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought.
ALTMAN, J.P., S. MILLER, McGINITY, H. MILLER and CRANE, JJ., concur.