Case Name: In the Matter of Robert Cruz, Appellant, v. Philip Coombe, Jr., as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1996-07-12
Citations: 229 A.D.2d 1024
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Robert Cruz, Appellant, v Philip Coombe, Jr., as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 229
Pages: 1024–1024

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Robert Cruz, Appellant, v Philip Coombe, Jr., as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents.
[646 NYS2d 466]

Opinion:
—Motion for permission to proceed as a poor person and assignment of counsel denied. Memorandum: A CPLR article 78 proceeding is commenced upon the filing of the petition, not upon the mailing of the petition to the court clerk for filing (see, Enos v City of Rochester, 206 AD2d 159). Present—Green, J. P., Lawton, Callahan, Balio and Boehm, JJ.