Case Name: In the Matter of Rick Blake, Petitioner, v. Donald E. Belfi et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-03-10
Citations: 237 A.D.2d 353
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Rick Blake, Petitioner, v Donald E. Belfi et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 237
Pages: 353–353

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Rick Blake, Petitioner, v Donald E. Belfi et al., Respondents.
[655 NYS2d 439]

Opinion:
Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus, inter alia, to compel the respondent Donald E. Belfi to comply with a decision and order of this Court dated May 30, 1990, and application by the petitioner to prosecute the proceeding as a poor person.
Upon the petition and papers filed in support of the proceeding and the application and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is
Ordered that the application for leave to prosecute the proceeding as a poor person is granted; and it is further,
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 has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. O'Brien, J. P., Santucci, Joy and Friedmann, JJ., concur.