Dunkley v. Dillon

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent to disclose a written statement pertaining to a criminal conviction of the petitioner, the petitioner appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Jonas, J.), dated May 1, 2006, which denied, without prejudice to renew, his petition.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court properly denied the petition on the ground that the petitioner failed to properly file the initiatory documents with “the clerk of the court in the county in which the action or special…