MATTER OF BURNS v. COOKE

2019-02044. Index No. 1007/18.

189 A.D.3d 826 (2020)

133 N.Y.S.3d 476

2020 NY Slip Op 07190

In the Matter of Trevor Burns, Appellant, v. Brenda Cooke et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided December 2, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Trevor Burns, Otisville, NY, appellant pro se.

James E. Johnson , Corporation Counsel, New York, NY ( Devin Slack and Claude S. Platton of counsel), for respondents.

Scheinkman, P.J., Maltese, LaSalle and Christopher, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The petitioner made two requests pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law art 6 [hereinafter FOIL]) to the New York City Department of Correction (hereinafter DOC), one in October 2017 and the other in November 2017, for various records concerning a former inmate who had sworn in an affidavit dated January 6, 2017, that he did not testify against the petitioner at the petitioner...

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