Staten Island Branch of the National Ass'n v. State of New York Grievance Committee

OPINION OF THE COURT

Bernard J. Graham, J.

Decision

A petition has been filed by the Staten Island Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (the NAACP) pursuant to CPLR 7801 et seq., against the State of New York Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh and Thirteenth Judicial Districts, as respondent (the Grievance Committee).

Petitioner seeks, inter alia, a judgment of this court that the respondent Grievance Committee had acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner, by refusing to accept a complaint filed by the petitioner to investigate and determine…