Hill v. Committee on Professional Standards of Third Judicial Department

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to prohibit continuation of an investigation by respondents into petitioner’s alleged violation of Judiciary Law § 90 (10).

Petitioner, an attorney, filed the instant CPLR article 78 proceeding seeking, inter alia, to enjoin respondents, both attorney disciplinary committees, from conducting any further investigation of him relating to his public disclosure of an allegedly confidential disposition of a complaint against another attorney. This imbroglio arose out of…