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Date Created: 2024-03-07 17:11:06.302981+00
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Matter of Harton (2024 NY Slip Op 01242)

Matter of Harton

2024 NY Slip Op 01242

Decided on March 7, 2024

Appellate Division, Third Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided and Entered:March 7, 2024

PM-37-24
[*1]In the Matter of Ollie Minton Harton, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5782792.)

Calendar Date:March 4, 2024

Before:Garry, P.J., Clark, Reynolds Fitzgerald, Ceresia and Mackey, JJ.

Ollie Minton Harton, Atlanta, Georgia, pro se.
Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany (Alison M. Coan of counsel), for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.

Per Curiam.
Ollie Minton Harton was admitted to practice by this Court in 2020 and lists a business address in Atlanta, Georgia with the Office of Court Administration. Harton now seeks leave to resign from the New York bar for nondisciplinary reasons (see  Rules for Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [a]). The Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department (hereinafter AGC) advises that it does not oppose Harton's application.
Upon reading Harton's affidavit sworn to December 8, 2023 and filed January 18, 2024, and upon reading the February 23, 2024 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Harton is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.
Garry, P.J., Clark, Reynolds Fitzgerald, Ceresia and Mackey, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Ollie Minton Harton's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Ollie Minton Harton's name is hereby stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law of the State of New York, effective immediately, and until further order of this Court (see generally  Rules for Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further
ORDERED that Ollie Minton Harton is commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form in the State of New York, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another; and Harton is hereby forbidden to appear as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, judge, justice, board, commission or other public authority, or to give to another an opinion as to the law or its application, or any advice in relation thereto, or to hold himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State; and it is further
ORDERED that Ollie Minton Harton shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.