MATTER OF MFY LEGAL SERVS., INC. v. DUDLEY


67 N.Y.2d 706 (1986)

In the Matter of MFY Legal Services, Inc., Appellant, v. Edward R. Dudley et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 11, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Myers, Norman Siegel and Daniel L. Greenberg for appellant.

Joseph L. Clasen, III, and Owen McGivern for respondents.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Frederic L. Lieberman, Howard L. Zwickel, O. Peter Sherwood and Robert Hermann of counsel), for State of New York and another, amici curiae.

Conrad A. Johnson, Mary Marsh Zulack, John E. Kirklin and Scott A. Rosenberg for Legal Aid Society of New York, amicus curiae.

Kathleen Peratis for New York Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER and TITONE concur; Judge HANCOCK, JR., taking no part.


MEMORANDUM.

The judgment of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs.

This is an article 78 proceeding in the nature of prohibition instituted by petitioner, a not-for-profit legal services corporation, against respondents, Justices of the Appellate Term, First Department. Petitioner seeks to prohibit respondents from issuing ex parte orders that (1) direct...

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