Legal Opinion
Yannitelli v. D. Yannitelli & Sons Construction Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 17, 1998PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Beverly Cohen, J.), entered October 3, 1996, which, inter alia, declared any fee for legal services by appellant Kenneth Heller, Esq., plaintiff’s former attorney, to be forfeited by reason of violations of the Code of Professional Responsibility, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The court’s denial of recusal was a proper exercise of discretion. We find no merit to appellant’s argument that a mandatory statutory basis for disqualification arose in this case (see, Judiciary Law § 14). In the absence of statutory grounds, the decision upon a recusal motion…
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