Swack v. Schneiderman

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Weinstein, J.), entered January 19, 2016 in Albany County, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to annul a determination of respondent finding that petitioner is not entitled to be provided with legal representation under Public Officers Law § 17.

With the exception of the petitioner in issue, the facts and procedural history in this CPLR article 78 proceeding are indistinguishable from those in Matter of Rademacher v Schneiderman (155 AD3d 1459 [2017] [decided herewith]). Briefly, petitioner—like the…