Court Opinion

ID: 6025529
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 12:17:53.541938+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:51:00.582800
License: Public Domain

—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of prohibition, inter alia, to prohibit the respondents from taking any further action against the petitioner in the matter entitled People v Robert Clark, pending in the Supreme Court, Queens County, under Indictment No. QN11570/97.
Adjudged that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.
“Because of its extraordinary nature, prohibition is available only where there is a clear legal right, and then only when a court — in cases where judicial authority is challenged — acts or threatens to act either without jurisdiction or in excess of its authorized powers” (Matter of Holtzman v Goldman, 71 NY2d 564, 569; see, Matter of Rush v Mordue, 68 NY2d 348, 352). *611The petitioner has failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Miller, J. P., Joy, Altman and McGinity, JJ., concur.