Ferlicca v. Starkweather

• Decision Date: 23 August 1995
• Citation: 632 N.Y.S.2d 1,219 A.D.2d 795
• Parties: Matter of John J. FERLICCA, Appellant-Respondent, v. Ronald J. STARKWEATHER and M. Betsy Relin, Commissioners of the Monroe County Board of Elections, Respondents, and Robert G. O'Mealia and Philip Fedele, Respondents-Appellants.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

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632 N.Y.S.2d 1

219 A.D.2d 795

Matter of John J. FERLICCA, Appellant-Respondent, v. Ronald J. STARKWEATHER and M. Betsy Relin, Commissioners of the Monroe County Board of Elections, Respondents, and Robert G. O'Mealia and Philip Fedele, Respondents-Appellants.

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department.

Aug. 23, 1995.

Harris & Chesworth (Timothy P. Blodgett, of counsel), Rochester, for Appellant-Respondent.

John M. Owens, Rochester, for Respondents-Appellants, O'Mealia and Fedele.

Charles S. Turner by Theodore C. Juroe, Rochester, for Respondents, Monroe County Bd. of Elections.

Before GREEN, J.P., and PINE, LAWTON, FALLON and WESLEY, JJ.

MEMORANDUM:

Supreme Court properly denied the petition seeking to compel respondent Commissioners of the Monroe County Board of Elections to accept and validate two petitions for an opportunity to ballot. Those petitions were fatally defective for failure to designate a committee to receive notices as required by Election Law §§ 6-164 and 6-166 (see, Matter of Krupczak v. Mancini, 153 A.D.2d 785, 786, 545 N.Y.S.2d 51).

Cross appeal unanimously dismissed (see, Town of Massena v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp., 45 N.Y.2d 482, 488, 410 N.Y.S.2d 276, 382 N.E.2d 1139; Matter of Brown v. Starkweather, 197 A.D.2d 840, 602 N.Y.S.2d 449, lv. denied 82 N.Y.2d 653, 602 N.Y.S.2d 802, 622 N.E.2d 303) and order affirmed without costs.