MATTER OF ST. MATTHEW LUTHERAN CHURCH v. NEW YORK STATE DIV. OF HUMAN RIGHTS, 88 A.D.3d 1280 (2011)
Court: Supreme Court of New York
Number: innyco20111007404
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Filed: Oct. 07, 2011
Latest Update: Oct. 07, 2011
Summary: It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law without costs and the petition is dismissed. Memorandum: In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, respondent appeals from a judgment granting the petition seeking to prohibit it from taking further action on a discrimination complaint filed by the former principal of the school operated by petitioner. We agree with respondent that Supreme Court erred in granting the petition. It is well established that "the e
Summary: It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law without costs and the petition is dismissed. Memorandum: In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, respondent appeals from a judgment granting the petition seeking to prohibit it from taking further action on a discrimination complaint filed by the former principal of the school operated by petitioner. We agree with respondent that Supreme Court erred in granting the petition. It is well established that "the ex..
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It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law without costs and the petition is dismissed.
Memorandum: In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, respondent appeals from a judgment granting the petition seeking to prohibit it from taking further action on a discrimination complaint filed by the former principal of the school operated by petitioner. We agree with respondent that Supreme Court erred in granting the petition. It is well established that "the extraordinary remedy of prohibition does not . . . lie to interfere with proceedings before [respondent]," inasmuch as the "[r]emedy for asserted error of law in the exercise of [respondent's] jurisdiction or authority lies first in administrative review and following exhaustion of that remedy in subsequent judicial review pursuant to section 298 of the Executive Law" (Matter of Tessy Plastics Corp. v State Div. of Human Rights, 47 N.Y.2d 789, 791 [1979]; see Matter of Newfield Cent. School Dist. v New York State Div. of Human Rights, 66 A.D.3d 1314, 1315-1316 [2009]). Further, "a challenge to a nonfinal order of [respondent] is not available unless there is a showing of `futility of the administrative remedy[,] irreparable harm in the absence of prompt judicial intervention[ ] or a claim of unconstitutional action'" (Newfield Cent. School Dist., 66 AD3d at 1316), and that is not the case here (see Matter of Diocese of Rochester v New York State Div. of Human Rights, 305 A.D.2d 1000 [2003]).
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