Opinion
No. 537 CA 21-01137
06-03-2022
IN THE MATTER OF NEW YORK COALITION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT, INC., PETITIONER-APPELLANT, v. NIAGARA COUNTY BOARD OF ETHICS, NIAGARA COUNTY LEGISLATURE, county OF NIAGARA, REBECCA J. WYDYSH, AS CHAIRMAN OF NIAGARA COUNTY LEGISLATURE, AND JAMES SPANBAUER, AS CHAIRMAN OF NIAGARA COUNTY BOARD OF ETHICS, RESPONDENTS-RESPONDENTS.
CIVIL RIGHTS AND TRANSPARENCY CLINIC, BUFFALO (MICHAEL F. HIGGINS OF COUNSEL), FOR PETITIONER-APPELLANT. CLAUDE A. JOERG, COUNTY ATTORNEY, LOCKPORT (KATHERINE D. ALEXANDER OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENTS-RESPONDENTS.
CIVIL RIGHTS AND TRANSPARENCY CLINIC, BUFFALO (MICHAEL F. HIGGINS OF COUNSEL), FOR PETITIONER-APPELLANT.
CLAUDE A. JOERG, COUNTY ATTORNEY, LOCKPORT (KATHERINE D. ALEXANDER OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENTS-RESPONDENTS.
PRESENT: PERADOTTO, J.P., LINDLEY, NEMOYER, CURRAN, AND WINSLOW, JJ.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Niagara County (Frank Caruso, J.), entered July 19, 2021. The order denied the application of petitioner for attorney's fees.
It is hereby ORDERED that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.