Eastwood v. Fischer

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Platkin, J.), entered June 16, 2010 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of the Central Office Review Committee denying his grievance.

Petitioner, an inmate at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Washington County, filed a grievance when employees in the facility’s package room denied him a package containing cigarette “tubes.” Ultimately, the Central Office Review Committee denied the grievance, prompting petitioner to commence this CPLR article 78…