The State University of New York is asking an appellate panel to impose a rare writ of prohibition on Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Demarest (See Profile), to prevent the judge from transferring the assets of the financially ailing Long Island College Hospital (LICH) or establishing a trust to control the assets.

On Thursday, SUNY petitioned the Appellate Division, Second Department, for both a writ of prohibition and permission to appeal a Demarest order that SUNY says was a “gross abuse of power that went far beyond the limits of [her] jurisdiction.”

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