Matter of Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP v Schack
2011 NY Slip Op 05720 [85 AD3d 1192]
June 28, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 10, 2011


In the Matter of Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, Petitioner,
v
Arthur M. Schack et al., Respondents.

—[*1] Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Charles E. Simpson of counsel), petitioner pro se.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Michael J. Siudzinski of counsel), for respondent Arthur M. Schack.

Benjamin Turner, Brooklyn, N.Y., for respondent Curtis Sylvestor.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of prohibition and mandamus, inter alia, to compel Arthur M. Schack, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, to vacate an order of the same court dated January 31, 2011.

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. Rivera, J.P., Angiolillo, Eng and Sgroi, JJ., concur.