Matter of Walker v. Roque

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Donna M. Mills, J.), entered September 18, 2012, denying the petition to compel respondent to disclose documents requested by petitioner pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), and dismissing the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court properly found that the proceeding is time-barred. Petitioner’s 2012 FOIL request was duplicative of his 1992 FOIL request seeking essentially the same materials pertaining to the same criminal case, notwithstanding that the prior request was more detailed…