Case Name: In the Matter of Rainbow News 12 Company, Petitioner, v. Alfred C. Tisch et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1995-04-24
Citations: 214 A.D.2d 740
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Rainbow News 12 Company, Petitioner, v Alfred C. Tisch et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 214
Pages: 740–740

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Rainbow News 12 Company, Petitioner, v Alfred C. Tisch et al., Respondents.
[625 NYS2d 614]

Opinion:
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondents to release certain audio-tape and video-tape recordings introduced as evidence in pre-trial hearings in an action entitled People v Rogers, pending in the County Court, Suffolk County (Indictment No. 2584/94).
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. v Scheinman, 53 NY2d 12, 16). The petitioner here has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Mangano, P. J., Miller, Santucci and Altman, JJ., concur.