Opinion
2022-03120
05-11-2022
In the Matter of Elizabeth Harding Weinstein, petitioner, v. Robert M. DiBella, etc., et al., respondents. Elizabeth Harding Weinstein, Connecticut, petitioner pro se.
Letitia James, Attorney General, New York, NY (Amy Luo of counsel), for respondents.
Letitia James, Attorney General, New York, NY (Amy Luo of counsel), for respondents.
BETSY BARROS, J.P. ANGELA G. IANNACCI, ROBERT J. MILLER, PAUL WOOTEN, JJ.
DECISION & JUDGMENT
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondents, Robert M. DiBella and Janet C. Malone, Justices of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, and Anne E. Minihan, Administrative Judge for the Ninth Judicial District, in effect, to unseal certain records in a proceeding entitled Matter of Elizabeth H. W., commenced in the Supreme Court, Westchester County, under Index No. 31053/21.
ADJUDGED that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, 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 Socy. 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.
BARROS, J.P., IANNACCI, MILLER and WOOTEN, JJ., concur.