MATTER OF BARNES v. La Vallee

Memorandum. Orders in both proceedings are affirmed, without costs. Despite able and earnest presentations by counsel (assigned by this court) in each proceeding, the fact remains that the initiating petitions are legally insufficient. Among other things, they fail to allege facts to establish the preconditions to the relief requested. Moreover, the gravamen in each petition is too general, vague, and insufficient to permit the court to consider other than abstract questions *723about an inadequately described or identified "religion” and its purported requirements, or the "literature” which…