| Matter of Taylor v Aloise |
| 2011 NY Slip Op 05718 [85 AD3d 1190] |
| June 28, 2011 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Aaron Taylor, Petitioner, v Michael Aloise et al., Respondents. |
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Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Charles F. Sanders of counsel),
for respondents.
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel Michael Aloise, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County, to vacate an order of the same court dated August 11, 2010, and application by the petitioner to prosecute the proceeding as a poor person.
Ordered that the application for poor person relief is granted to the extent that the filing fee imposed by CPLR 8022 (b) is waived, and the application is otherwise denied; and it is further,
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 when there exists a clear legal right to the relief sought (see Matter of Legal Aid Socy. of Sullivan County v Scheinman, 53 NY2d 12, 16 [1981]). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Dillon, J.P., Eng, Chambers and Lott, JJ., concur.