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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Mandela Brock El-Shabazz, Petitioner, v Supreme Court of New York (IDV-1) et al., Respondents.
    [970 NYS2d 883]
   — Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, in the nature of prohibition to prohibit the respondent Patricia E. Henry, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Kings County, from presiding over a custody and visitation proceeding pending in the Supreme Court, Kings County, under index No. V-00052/ 13, and application by the petitioner for poor person relief.

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 on the merits, without costs or disbursements.

“Because of its extraordinary nature, prohibition is available only where there is a clear legal right, and then only when a court — in cases where judicial authority is challenged — acts or threatens to act either without jurisdiction or in excess of its authorized powers” (Matter of Holtzman v Goldman, 71 NY2d 564, 569 [1988]; see Matter of Rush v Mordue, 68 NY2d 348, 352 [1986]). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Rivera, J.R, Skelos, Cohen and Hinds-Radix, JJ., concur.