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Timestamp: 2018-03-18 23:29:02
Document Index: 370470719

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 9', '§ 1101', '§ 1101', '§ 11', '§ 11', '§1101', '§ 11', '§3022']

RANDOLPH v. THE STATE OF NEW YORK, 109465
RANDOLPH v. THE STATE OF NEW YORK, #2004-030-574, Claim No. 109465, Motion No. M-68646
2004-030-574
JOE RANDOLPH The caption has been amended to reflect the only proper defendant.
M-68646
JOE RANDOLPH, PRO SE
for permission to proceed as a poor person and for appointment of counsel:
Affidavit in Support of an Application pursuant to CPLR Rule 1101(F) by Joe Randolph, Claimant
Filed Papers: Claim	After carefully considering the papers submitted[1] and the applicable law the motion is disposed of as follows:
No provisions in the Court of Claims Act concern the prosecution of actions under poor person status. Accordingly, Article 11 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules controls consideration of such relief. § 9(9) Court of Claims Act; Wilson v State of New York, 101 Misc 2d 924 (Ct Cl 1979). Civil Practice Law and Rules § 1101(a) allows a court to grant poor person status to a claimant upon motion supported by ". . . an affidavit setting forth the amount and sources of his . . . income and listing his . . . property with its value; that he . . . is unable to pay the costs, fees and expenses necessary to prosecute . . . the action . . . " The statute also requires that " . . . the county attorney in the county in which the action is triable . . . " be given notice of the application. Civil Practice Law and Rules § 1101(c).
The claim was filed after enactment of Court of Claims Act § 11-a requiring a filing fee of $50.00. [See Court of Claims Act § 11-a(1), effective December 7, 1999]. By Order of this Court, Claimant's filing fee was reduced to $30.00 pursuant to Civil Practice Law and Rules §1101(f). (June 16, 2004, Hard, J,).
Claimant indicates he has only prison wages in the amount of $13.00 per month, does not have any other source of income nor does he own any other property; nor is any other person able to pay the filing fee who has a beneficial interest in the outcome of this proceeding.
After carefully reviewing the Claim, and the papers submitted in support of this motion, it is denied initially on procedural grounds because Claimant did not serve the appropriate County Attorney's Office with a copy of this application. More substantively, the Court finds Claimant has not demonstrated that permission to proceed as a poor person is warranted, nor that his is a "proper case" warranting the appointment of counsel at public expense. The claim appears to be a fairly routine bailment matter.
Accordingly, Motion No. M-68646 is denied in its entirety.
[1]Although the Attorney General opposes the motion and indicates that the Claim is subject to dismissal because it lacks a verification in conformance with Court of Claims Act § 11(b), and also that her office rejected and returned the claim in accordance with Civil Practice Law and Rules §3022, there is no cross-motion before the Court asking for dismissal of the claim.