Opinion
40
February 5, 2002.
Petitioner's application pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, to prohibit consideration by Justice Emily Goodman of the Shaw Estate's motion for partial summary judgment in the underlying action, converted, pursuant to CPLR 103(c), to an application pursuant to CPLR 5704(a), and, thereupon, unanimously granted to the extent of directing that the Estate's motion for partial summary judgment, made pursuant to an Order to Show Cause of the Supreme Court, New York County (Marilyn Diamond, J.) signed on or about August 19, 2001, be referred to Judicial Hearing Officer Martin Evans to hear and decide pursuant to the order of reference of the same court (Emily Goodman, J.), dated June 7, 1995, and to vacate the stay of all proceedings in the underlying matter imposed by Justice Goodman, without costs.
MICHAEL J. MARINO, for petitioner.
CAROLYN CAIRNS OLSON, for respondents.
SAUL RUDES WILLIAM S. GREENAWALT, for Estate of Shaw.
Before: Nardelli, J.P., Tom, Sullivan, Ellerin, Rubin, JJ.
This proceeding, commenced by petitioner pursuant to CPLR article 78, should have been brought pursuant to CPLR 5704(a) as one to vacate or modify an ex parte order. We thus convert the proceeding accordingly (CPLR 103[c]), and, upon such conversion, find that the parties are bound by the order dated June 7, 1995, in which the IAS court explicitly referred to the Judicial Hearing Officer, not only the contempt issue, but "all remaining issues in the [underlying] matter", expressly vacating an earlier order of limited scope.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.