Majority
In a proceeding pursuant to Election Law § 16-102, inter alia, to invalidate petitions designating certain of the respondents as candidates in a primary election to be held on September 9, 2014, for the party position of Members of the Rockland County Republican Committee, the petitioner appeals from a final order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Berliner, J.), dated August 1, 2014, which granted that branch of the motion of the respondent candidates which was to dismiss the petition, inter alia, to invalidate the designating petitions on the ground that the petitioner lacked standing to commence the proceeding, and dismissed the proceeding.
Ordered that the final order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The Supreme Court properly granted that branch of the respondent candidates’ motion which was to dismiss the petition on the ground that the petitioner lacked standing to commence this proceeding to invalidate the petitions designating them as candidates for party positions. As the Chairperson of the Town
Rivera, J.E, Leventhal, Hall, Roman and Hinds-Radix, JJ., concur.
Cases cited
- Eaton v. Rosenberg 109 AD3d 770 at 771 p. 672
- Levine v. Turco 43 AD3d 618 at 619-620 p. 672
- Crawley v. Board of Elections 218 AD2d 914 at 915 p. 672
- D'Alvia v. DiGiacomo 175 AD2d 891 at 891-892 p. 672