New York Court of Appeals
In the Matter of B. T. Productions, Inc., Doing Business as Town & Country Dinner Theatre, Respondents, v…
April 6, 197844 N.Y.2d 226
Summary
The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the Appellate Division's grant of a writ of prohibition, holding that the Organized Crime Task Force lacked statutory authority to obtain a search warrant and that the article 78 proceeding was properly commenced in the Appellate Division. The decision also affirmed that prohibition is available when a body exceeds its jurisdiction.