Matter of Minkow v Bivona
2007 NY Slip Op 00309 [36 AD3d 704]
January 16, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 14, 2007


In the Matter of Ellen Minkow, Petitioner,
v
John C. Bivona, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Respondent. Elliot Metelka, Nonparty.

—[*1] Nancy Sherman, Lake Success, N.Y., for petitioner. Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Charles F. Sanders of counsel), for respondent. Schlissel, Ostrow, Karabatos & Poepplein, PLLC, Garden City, N.Y. (Michael J. Ostrow of counsel), for nonparty.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of prohibition, inter alia, to prohibit the respondent, John C. Bivona, a Justice of the Supreme Court, from proceeding with the trial in an action entitled Minkow v Metelka, pending in the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, under index No. 29250/03.

Adjudged that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

By order dated September 6, 2006 the respondent recused himself and returned the matter for reassignment to another justice. Accordingly, the proceeding has been rendered academic. Goldstein, J.P., Florio, Fisher and Lunn, JJ., concur.