Opinion
March 31, 1994
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Kristin Booth Glen, J.).
Petitioner's claims regarding the allegedly unfair treatment he received while a doctoral student are moot inasmuch as petitioner represents on appeal that he has obtained his doctoral degree.
In any event, contrary to petitioner's claim, the IAS Court properly dismissed the petition without holding an evidentiary hearing (CPLR 7804 [h]), inasmuch as petitioner failed to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether respondents acted in good faith (see, Matter of Currier v. Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Bd. of Coop. Educ. Servs., 80 A.D.2d 979; Matter of Reisman v. Codd, 54 A.D.2d 878). Nor did petitioner establish that respondents acted in bad faith by failing to provide him with another mentor after the mentor with whom petitioner had worked discontinued his relationship with petitioner. Respondents established that university policy did not require them to provide petitioner with another mentor and petitioner failed to show otherwise. We note in this regard, however, that respondents nevertheless assigned another advisor to petitioner to assist and advise him in the writing of his dissertation.
Were we not dismissing the appeal, we would find petitioner's other contentions to be without merit.
Concur — Murphy, J.P., Ellerin, Kupferman, Ross and Tom, JJ.