Case Name: In the Matter of Maurice Pelt, Appellant, v. City of New York Police Department et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1995-05-11
Citations: 215 A.D.2d 208
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Maurice Pelt, Appellant, v City of New York Police Department et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 215
Pages: 208–209

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Maurice Pelt, Appellant, v City of New York Police Department et al., Respondents.
[626 NYS2d 169]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lorraine Miller, J.), entered July 1, 1994, which in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 challenging respondent's denial of petitioner's Freedom of Information Law request, dismissed the petition as barred by the four-month Statute of Limitations, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Petitioner's article 78 proceeding was untimely commenced when the Clerk of the court received his petition almost five months after the denial of his administrative appeal was communicated to him by letter, and not, as he claims, when he allegedly mailed the petition to the Clerk more than three months earlier (Enos v City of Rochester, 206 AD2d 159). Concur—Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Wallach, Kupferman and Asch, JJ.