Decided June 14, 2001. Appeal, by permission of the Court of Appeals, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, entered June 22, 2000, which affirmed a judgment of the Supreme Court (Dan Lamont, J.; opn 182 Misc.2d 85), entered in Albany County in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, dismissing a petition to review an order approving a reduction in the fee schedule application to court-appointed private counsel in capital cases. Jay Cohen