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December 26, 2022

Squibs of selected decisions posted on the Internet during the month of December 2022

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Section 11(b) of the Court of Claims Act requires a claim to specify "(1) 'the nature of [the claim]'; (2) 'the time when' it arose; (3) the 'place where' it arose; (4) 'the items of damage or injuries claimed to have been sustained'; (5) 'a sufficiently detailed description of the particulars of the claim to enable [the State] to investigate and promptly ascertain the existence and extent of its liability' and (6) 'the total sum claimed.'"

Click the following URL to access this decision posted on the Internet at  https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2022/2022_07257.htm

A writ of prohibition is available to a petitioner "only where there is a clear legal right and only when the body or officer acts or threatens to act without jurisdiction in a matter over which it has no power over the subject matter or where it exceeds its authorized powers in a proceeding over which it has jurisdiction."

N.B.The writ of prohibition is one of number of the ancient “common law” writs. Other such ancients writs include the writ of mandamus, granted by a court to compel an official to perform "acts that officials are duty-bound to perform;" the writ of injunction - a judicial order preventing a public official from performing an act; the writ of certiorari, compelling a lower court to send its record of a case to the higher tribunal for review by the higher tribunal; and the writ of  quo warranto [by what authority]. New York State's Civil Practice Law and Rules sets out the modern equivalents of the surviving ancient writs.

Click the following URL to access this decision posted on the Internet at  https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2022/2022_07231.htm

Where a declaratory judgment action seeks an adjudication of rights that could be resolved in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR Article 78, the statute of limitations applicable to a CPLR Article 78 proceeding applies.

Click the following URL to access this decision posted on the Internet at https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2022/2022_07235.htm

Supreme Court properly denied New York City Transit Authority's [NYCTA] motion to prohibit Plaintiffs' counsel and employees from asking questions of NYCTA officials at any public hearing without first submitting the proposed questions to NYCTA's counsel prior to the public hearing and disclosing Plaintiffs' counsel and employees identity at the hearing as [1] the questions did not concern the subject of Plaintiffs' counsel's representation and [2] involved a matter of public concern.

Click the following URL to access this decision posted on the Internet at  https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/3dseries/2022/2022_07181.htm

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