Opinion
2014-01-15
In the Matter of Daniel SILVERA, petitioner, v. Norman JANOWITZ, etc., et al., respondents.
Alexander Potruch, LLC, Garden City, N.Y., for petitioner. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Michael J. Siudzinski of counsel), for respondents Norman Janowitz and Jeffrey A. Goodstein.
Alexander Potruch, LLC, Garden City, N.Y., for petitioner. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Michael J. Siudzinski of counsel), for respondents Norman Janowitz and Jeffrey A. Goodstein.
Anthony A. Capetola, Williston Park, N.Y., for respondent Rebecca Chusid.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, in effect, in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent Norman Janowitz, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, to transfer venue of an action entitled Chusid v. Silvera, pending in the Supreme Court, Nassau County, under index No. 200102/11, from Nassau County to New York County.
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).
The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. MASTRO, J.P., LOTT, SGROI and MILLER, JJ., concur.