Legal Opinion

Tafari v. Rock

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided August 4, 2011PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Petitioner, a prison inmate, filed a verified petition seeking to challenge 61 tier III disciplinary determinations rendered over the past 20 years. Supreme Court treated the petition as an ex parte application for the issuance of an order to show cause to commence a CPLR article 78 proceeding, denied the request and dismissed the petition. Because the denial of an ex parte order to show cause is not appealable, the appeal must be dismissed (see Matter of Tafari v Rock, 85 AD3d 1485 [2011]).

Mercure, J.P, Peters, Spain, Kavanagh and Stein, JJ., concur. Ordered that the appeal is dismissed,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Tafari v. RockAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2011

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Matter of Harris v. Division of ParoleAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2015

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