MATTER OF WALKER v. PATAKI


266 A.D.2d 40 (1999)

698 N.Y.S.2d 624

In the Matter of CARLTON WALKER et al., Appellants, v. GEORGE E. PATAKI, as Governor of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided November 9, 1999.


The operative allegation of the petition is that the police "continue to arrest and detain other foreign nationals" in violation of article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, which provides for notification of a foreign national's consulate upon the arrest of that foreign national. The petition should be dismissed for lack of a justiciable controversy. Mandamus directing respondents to enforce the treaty and an injunction prohibiting respondents from continuing...

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