Matter of Segarra v Clausen

Matter of Segarra v Clausen 2017 NY Slip Op 06280 Decided on August 23, 2017 Appellate Division, Second 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 August 23, 2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.
LEONARD B. AUSTIN
SANDRA L. SGROI
HECTOR D. LASALLE
ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.
2017-08124
(Index No. 2370/17)

[*1]In the Matter of Luis A. Segarra, et al., appellants,

v

Matthew B. Clausen, respondent-respondent, et al., respondent.

DECISION & ORDER

In a proceeding pursuant to Election Law § 16-102, inter alia, to validate a petition designating Luis A. Segarra and Robert M. Sullivan as candidates in a primary election to be held on September 12, 2017, for the nomination of the Democratic Party as its candidates for the public office of Council Member, City of Peekskill, Luis A. Segarra and Robert M. Sullivan appeal from a final order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Walker, J.), dated August 14, 2017, which, in effect, (1) denied their motion for leave to amend their pleadings to conform to the evidence, (2) denied the petition, inter alia, to validate the designating petition, and (3) dismissed the proceeding.

ORDERED that the final order is reversed, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, without costs or disbursements, the motion of Luis A. Segarra and Robert M. Sullivan for leave to amend their pleadings to conform to the evidence is granted, and the petition, as amended, inter alia, to validate the designating petition is granted.

Under the particular circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in denying the petitioners' motion for leave to amend their pleadings to conform to the evidence at the hearing (see CPLR 3025[c]). That evidence established that there was a sufficient number of valid signatures on the designating petition.

BALKIN, J.P., AUSTIN, SGROI, LASALLE and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court