Conroy v. State Committee of the Independence Party

*833In a hybrid proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 and Election Law article 16 and an action for a judgment declaring that the amendments to articles II and XII of the rules of the New York State Committee of the Independence Party adopted on January 28, 2007 are invalid, the State Committee of the Independence Party of New York, Frank MacKay, William Bogardt, Frank Morano, and Thomas Connolly appeal, as limited by their brief, from stated portions of a final order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Levine, J.), dated March 12, 2007, which, inter alia, granted that branch of the petition…