Opinion
08-13-2015
In the Matter of Jason SMITH, Petitioner, v. Albert PRACK, as Director of Special Housing and Inmate Disciplinary Programs, Respondent.
Jason Smith, Sonyea, petitioner pro se. Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Marcus J. Mastracco of counsel), for respondent.
Jason Smith, Sonyea, petitioner pro se.Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Marcus J. Mastracco of counsel), for respondent.
Opinion
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.
Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge a determination finding him guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule. The Attorney General has advised this Court that the determination at issue has been administratively reversed, all references thereto have been expunged from petitioner's institutional record and the $5 mandatory surcharge has been refunded to petitioner's inmate account. In view of this, and given that petitioner has received all of the relief to which he is entitled, the petition must be dismissed as moot (see Matter of Ramos v. Department of Corr. & Community Supervision, 123 A.D.3d 1215, 1216, 995 N.Y.S.2d 866 [2014] ). We note that petitioner has no right to be restored to the status he enjoyed prior to the disciplinary determination (see Matter of Herring v. Prack, 118 A.D.3d 1200, 987 N.Y.S.2d 269 [2014] ).
ADJUDGED that the petition is dismissed, as moot, without costs, but with disbursements in the amount of $305.
LAHTINEN, J.P., McCARTHY, DEVINE and CLARK, JJ., concur.