Cardew v. Goord

—Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Kavanagh, J.), entered April 30, 1999 in Ulster County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, granted respondent’s motion to dismiss the petition as moot.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, commenced this CPLR article 78 *709proceeding in January 1999 challenging a December 1998 determination of the Central Office Review Committee (hereinafter CORC) which denied a grievance he filed alleging that he was improperly prohibited from sending mail to two individuals. Thereafter, by determination dated March 17, 1999, CORC amended its previous…