Case ID: ad2d_295/html/0607-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Gerard J. Fitzgerald, Petitioner, v Donald R. Blydenburgh, as Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.
    [744 NYS2d 890]
   —Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent Justice of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, to issue a written decision and order setting forth findings of fact and conclusions of law in an action entitled Fitzgerald v Fitzgerald pending in that court under Index No. 00-12596.

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). The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Ritter, J.P., Altman, Feuerstein and Cozier, JJ., concur.