Hanson v. Coughlin

— Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Conway, J.), entered January 4,1984 in Albany County, which denied respondent’s motion to dismiss the petition for lack of jurisdiction. $ Petitioner, while incarcerated at Clinton Correctional Facility, brought this CPLR article 78 proceeding seeking to have certain of his medical records made available for copying under the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law, art 6). He served a notice of petition and petition upon respondent and the Attorney-General by regular mail. Absent issuance of an order to show…