Matter of Toohey
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Opinion
| Matter of Toohey |
| 2024 NY Slip Op 06417 |
| Decided on December 19, 2024 |
| Appellate Division, Third 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 and Entered:December 19, 2024
PM-258-24
Calendar Date:December 9, 2024
Before:Aarons, J.P., Reynolds Fitzgerald, Fisher, McShan and Mackey, JJ.
Michael J. Toohey, Saratoga Springs, pro se.
Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany (Alison M. Coan of counsel), for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.
Per Curiam.
Michael J. Toohey was admitted to practice by this Court in 1976 and lists a business address in Saratoga County with the Office of Court Administration. Toohey now seeks leave to resign from the New York bar for nondisciplinary reasons (see Rules for Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [a]). The Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department (hereinafter AGC) opposes the application (see Rules for Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [a] [1]; see also Matter of Singh, 211 AD3d 1417, 1417 [3d Dept 2022]).
In making an application for nondisciplinary resignation, an attorney must submit an affidavit, subscribed and sworn to before a notary public or other person authorized to administer an oath, that is worded and numbered as set forth in Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters (22 NYCRR) part 1240, appendix E. In doing so, an attorney may not omit any inapplicable passages, but rather must provide complete responses to every numbered paragraph as provided for in appendix E. Accordingly, inasmuch as Toohey's application fails to comport with appendix E, we deny the application (compare Matter of Stetson, 220 AD3d 1007, 1008 [3d Dept 2023]).
Aarons, J.P., Reynolds Fitzgerald, Fisher, McShan and Mackey, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Michael J. Toohey's application for permission to resign is denied.
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