Matter of Andrade v New York City Police Dept.

Matter of Andrade v New York City Police Dept. 2013 NY Slip Op 03551 Decided on May 16, 2013 Appellate Division, First Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on May 16, 2013
Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Moskowitz, Manzanet-Daniels, JJ. 10072-
402860/10 10072A

[*1]In re Miguel Andrade, Petitioner-Appellant,

v

New York City Police Department, et al., Respondents-Respondents.




Miguel Andrade, appellant pro se.
Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, New York (Ellen
Ravitch of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol E. Huff, J.), entered May 19, 2011, denying the petition seeking to annul respondents' determination, dated June 25, 2010, which denied petitioner's request under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), and dismissing the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Appeal from order, same court and Justice, entered December 23, 2011, which denied petitioner's motion to reargue, denominated as one for "reargument and reconsideration," unanimously dismissed, without costs, as taken from a nonappealable paper.

The court properly denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding under the doctrine of res judicata. Petitioner requested disclosure of documents he had sought in a prior FOIL request, which were found to be exempt from disclosure in a prior article 78 proceeding between the same parties (see Matter of Cobb v Lombardi, 261 AD2d 172 [1st Dept 1999]; see also Matter of Corbin v Ward, 160 AD2d 596 [1st Dept 1990], lv denied 76 NY2d 706 [1990]).

The record further establishes that the petition was time-barred. The subject petition was brought in September 2010, more than four months after the November 2007 denial of petitioner's prior FOIL request (see CPLR 217[1]), and his second FOIL request "did not extend or toll his time to commence an article 78 proceeding" (Matter of Kelly v New York City Police Dept., 286 AD2d 581, 581 [1st Dept 2001]).

The appeal from the December 2011 order is dismissed. Petitioner's motion, denominated as one for "reargument and reconsideration," did not offer new or additional facts that would change the prior determination (see CPLR 2221[e]), and thus, was essentially a motion to reargue, the denial of which is not appealable (see Ramos v Napoli, 95 AD3d 637 [1st Dept 2012]).

Furthermore, we exercise our discretion to disregard the inaccuracies in the notice of appeal and treat it as valid, particularly since respondent was not misled or otherwise prejudiced [*2]by the inaccuracies (see CPLR 5520[c]; Cirillo v Macy's Inc., 61 AD3d 538, 539 [1st Dept 2009]).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER
OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.

ENTERED: MAY 16, 2013

CLERK