
    In the Matter of Diane Word, Petitioner, v Barbara G. Zambelli, as Westchester County Court Judge, Respondent.
    [858 NYS2d 903]
   Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus to compel the respondent to render a decision on the petitioner’s motion for leave to renew her petition in a proceeding entitled Matter of Word v New York State Commn. of Correction, commenced in the Supreme Court, Westchester County, under index No. 07-225. Application by the petitioner for leave to prosecute this proceeding as a poor person.

Ordered that the application is granted to the extent of waiving the filing fee and the application is otherwise denied; and it is further,

Adjudged that the proceeding is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

On March 11, 2008 the respondent rendered a decision on the petitioner’s motion for leave to renew. Accordingly, this proceeding has been rendered academic. Skelos, J.P, Ritter, Florio and Dickerson, JJ., concur.  