Case Name: In the Matter of Donald Palmer, Petitioner, v. Glenn S. Goord, as Commissioner of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1998-03-05
Citations: 248 A.D.2d 771
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Donald Palmer, Petitioner, v Glenn S. Goord, as Commissioner of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents.
Judges: Mercure, J. P., Crew III, White, Peters and Spain, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 248
Pages: 771–771

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Donald Palmer, Petitioner, v Glenn S. Goord, as Commissioner of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents.
[669 NYS2d 960]

Opinion:
—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.
The Attorney-General has advised this Court that the determination at issue has been administratively reversed and all references to the disciplinary hearing have been expunged from petitioner's institutional record. Inasmuch as petitioner has received all the relief to which he is entitled and is no longer aggrieved, the matter is dismissed as moot (see, Matter of Witherspoon v Goord, 243 AD2d 931).
Mercure, J. P., Crew III, White, Peters and Spain, JJ., concur.
Adjudged that the petition is dismissed, as moot, without costs.