Opinion
2012-06-20
In the Matter of Drew DOSCHER, petitioner, v. Hope Schwartz ZIMMERMAN, etc., et al., respondents.
A. Todd Merolla, New York, N.Y., for petitioner. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Susan Anspach of counsel), for respondents Hope Schwartz Zimmerman, Frank Schellace, and Norman Janowitz.
A. Todd Merolla, New York, N.Y., for petitioner. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Susan Anspach of counsel), for respondents Hope Schwartz Zimmerman, Frank Schellace, and Norman Janowitz.
Kenneth J. Weinstein, P.C., Garden City, N.Y., for respondent Susan Doscher.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent Hope Schwartz Zimmerman, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, to determine certain motions in an action entitled Doscher v. Doscher, pending in the Supreme Court, Nassau County, under Index No. 201489/03.
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 N.Y.2d 12, 16, 439 N.Y.S.2d 882, 422 N.E.2d 542). Under the circumstances presented in this proceeding, the petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought ( see Matter of D'Agnese v. Scher, 306 A.D.2d 408, 408–409, 761 N.Y.S.2d 484).