Matter of Alton ( 2024 )

Matter of Alton (2024 NY Slip Op 04430)

Matter of Alton

2024 NY Slip Op 04430

Decided on September 12, 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:September 12, 2024

PM-176-24

[*1]In the Matter of Stacey Alton, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4877593.)

Calendar Date:September 9, 2024
Before:Aarons, J.P., Pritzker, Reynolds Fitzgerald, Ceresia and McShan, JJ.

Stacey Alton, Walnut Creek, California, 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.

Stacey Alton was admitted to practice by this Court in 2010 and lists an address in Walnut Creek, California with the Office of Court Administration. Alton 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) advises that it does not oppose Alton's application.

Upon reading Alton's affidavit sworn to July 17, 2024 and filed July 22, 2024, and upon reading the August 27, 2024 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Alton is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.

Aarons, J.P., Pritzker, Reynolds Fitzgerald, Ceresia and McShan, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Stacey Alton's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Stacey Alton's name is hereby stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law of the State of New York, effective immediately, and until further order of this Court (see generally Rules for Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further

ORDERED that Stacey Alton is commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form in the State of New York, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another; and Alton is hereby forbidden to appear as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, judge, justice, board, commission or other public authority, or to give to another an opinion as to the law or its application, or any advice in relation thereto, or to hold herself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State; and it is further

ORDERED that Stacey Alton shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.