Case Name: In the Matter of William Addison, Petitioner, v. Glenn Goord, as Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1999-10-21
Citations: 265 A.D.2d 719
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of William Addison, Petitioner, v Glenn Goord, as Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 265
Pages: 719–719

Head Matter:
In the Matter of William Addison, Petitioner, v Glenn Goord, as Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents.
[696 NYS2d 908]

Opinion:
—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Washington County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.
The Attorney General has advised this Court by letter that the determination at issue in this proceeding has been administratively reversed and that all references thereto will be expunged from petitioner's institutional record. Inasmuch as petitioner has received all the relief to which he is entitled, the matter is dismissed as moot (see, Matter of Witherspoon v Goord, 243 AD2d 931).
Cardona, P. J., Mercure, Peters, Spain and Mugglin, JJ., concur. Adjudged that the petition is dismissed, as moot, without costs.