Matter of Lvovsky v Hart, 2015 NY Slip Op 07504 [132 AD3d 767]

October 14, 2015

Appellate Division, Second Department

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In the Matter of Gennady Lvovsky, Petitioner,

v

Duane Hart, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County, et al., Respondents.

Yonatan S. Levoritz, P.C., Brooklyn, N.Y., for petitioner.

Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, New York, N.Y. (Charles F. Sanders of counsel), for respondent Duane Hart.

Mitchell Segal, Great Neck, N.Y., respondent pro se, and Hoffman Polland & Furman PLLC, New York, N.Y. (Elliot R. Polland, respondent pro se, of counsel), for respondent Anna Breznan.

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, in the nature of prohibition to prohibit the respondent Duane Hart, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Queens County, from presiding over an action entitled Lvovsky v Breznan (Sup Ct, Queens County, index No. 706107/13).

Adjudged that the petition is denied and the proceeding is dismissed on the merits, 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 [1988]; see Matter of Rush v Mordue , 68 NY2d 348, 352 [1986]). The petitioner failed to demonstrate a clear legal right to the relief sought. Hall, J.P., Sgroi, Cohen and Maltese, JJ., concur..