Case Name: Edgardo Lopez, Respondent, v. New York City Housing Authority et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-03-16
Citations: 259 A.D.2d 347
Docket Number: 
Parties: Edgardo Lopez, Respondent, v New York City Housing Authority et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 259
Pages: 347–348

Head Matter:
Edgardo Lopez, Respondent, v New York City Housing Authority et al., Appellants.
[687 NYS2d 47]

Opinion:
Appeal from order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Emily Goodman, J.), entered October 31, 1997, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, granted the petition to annul a determination of respondent New York City Housing Authority that petitioner was not a "remaining family member" entitled to take over his now-deceased mother's public housing lease and directed respondent to grant petitioner a lease as a remaining family member, unanimously dismissed as moot, without costs.
Inasmuch as respondent Housing Authority has unconditionally issued a self-renewing lease to petitioner, the issues respondent would raise respecting petitioner's entitlement to such a lease have been mooted and their address is not warranted by any recognized exception to the mootness doctrine (see, Matter of Hearst Corp. v Clyne, 50 NY2d 707, 713-714). Concur — Sullivan, J. P., Rosenberger, Tom and Lerner, JJ.