Opinion
2002-00979
June 25, 2002.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent Justice of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, to issue a written decision and order setting forth findings of fact and conclusions of law in an action entitled Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald pending in that court under Index No. 00-12596.
Gerard J. Fitzgerald, petitioner pro se.
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney-General, New York, N.Y. (Lisa Ghartey of counsel), for respondent Hon. Donald R. Blydenburgh.
Jakubowski, Robertson Goldsmith, LLP, St. James, N.Y. (Bridget J. Giannetti of counsel), for respondent Barbara Fitzgerald.
Before: DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, BARRY A. COZIER, 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.
RITTER, J.P., ALTMAN, FEUERSTEIN and COZIER, JJ., concur.