Matter of Weiner v State of New York
2011 NY Slip Op 08369 [89 AD3d 953]
November 15, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, January 4th, 2012


In the Matter of Don Weiner, Appellant,
v
State of New York et al., Respondents, et al., Respondent/Defendant.

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Robert J. Del Col, Smithtown, N.Y., for appellant.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Benjamin N. Gutman, Monica Wagner, and Claude S. Platton of counsel), for respondents/defendants-respondents.

In a hybrid proceeding, inter alia, pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of prohibition to prohibit enforcement of a temporary order of protection issued against the petitioner on April 3, 2009, and extended on April 8, 2009, and for a declaratory judgment, the petitioner appeals from an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Whelan, J.), dated March 26, 2010, which granted that branch of the motion of the respondents/defendants State of New York, David Patterson, and G. Ann Spelman which was to dismiss the petition insofar as asserted against them as time-barred, and dismissed the proceeding in its entirety, and, in effect, granted that branch of the motion of those respondents/defendants which was pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (7) to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action, and dismissed the action.

Ordered that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

As the temporary order of protection at issue in this case has been vacated, any determination by this Court will not directly affect the rights of the parties (see Festa v Festa, 76 AD3d 1047, 1047-1048 [2010]; Matter of Bucaro v Morales, 62 AD3d 994, 995 [2009]). Since the matter does not warrant the invocation of the exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of Hearst Corp. v Clyne, 50 NY2d 707, 714 [1980]), the appeal must be dismissed as academic (see Matter of Bucaro v Morales, 62 AD3d at 995). Rivera, J.P., Dickerson, Eng and Roman, JJ., concur.