Matter of Dooher v Williams
2020 NY Slip Op 05711 [187 AD3d 1692]
October 13, 2020
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 2, 2020


[*1] (October 13, 2020)
 In the Matter of George Dooher et al., Respondents,
v
Steven Williams, Working Families Party Candidate for Member of Congress, 24th District of New York State and Purported Working Families Party Candidate for Supreme Court Justice, 11th Judicial District of New York State, et al., Appellants, et al., Respondents.

Levy Ratner, P.C., New York City (Alexander C. Rabb of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

Law Office of Joseph T. Burns, Williamsville (Joseph T. Burns of counsel), for petitioners-respondents.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Scott J. DelConte, J.), entered September 4, 2020, in a proceeding pursuant to Election Law article 16. The judgment, inter alia, granted the petition, ordered the removal from the ballot of respondent Steven Williams as Working Families Party candidate for Supreme Court Justice, 11th Judicial District, and ordered the restoration to the ballot of respondent Steven Williams as Working Families Party candidate for Member of Congress, 24th Congressional District.

It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Smith, J.P., Centra, NeMoyer and Winslow, JJ.