Appeal from a resettled judgment (denominated order) of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Brian F. DeJoseph, J.), entered June 15, 2010 in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78. The resettled judgment prohibited respondent from taking further action on the complaint in New York State Division of Human Rights case No. 10125491.
It is hereby ordered that the resettled judgment so appealed from is unanimously reversed on the law without costs and the petition is dismissed.
Memorandum: In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, respondent appeals from a resettled judgment prohibiting it from taking further action on a racial and disability discrimination complaint filed by petitioner. We agree with respondent that Supreme Court erred in granting the petition. We note at the outset that, although respondent appealed only from the original judgment, we may nevertheless review the resettled judgment in the absence of a new notice of appeal inasmuch as the resettled judgment “simply clarif[ies] the original. . . judgment for the purpose of correctly expressing the decision of’ the court (Elda Dev. Corp. v Wall, 101 AD2d 1000, 1001 [1984]).
With respect to the merits of the appeal, “[t]he Court of Appeals has held that a writ of prohibition is not an appropriate vehicle to be used to bar [respondent] from conducting an investigation because the '[r]emedy for asserted error of law in the exercise of [respondent’s] jurisdiction or authority lies first in administrative review’ ” (Matter of New field Cent. School Dist. v New York State Div. of Human Rights, 66 AD3d 1314, 1315-1316 [2009], quoting Matter of Tessy Plastics Corp. v State Div. of Human Rights, 47 NY2d 789, 791 [1979]). Thus, respondent “ has jurisdiction to investigate complaints of discrimination and any error of law in the exercise of that jurisdiction must first be challenged by administrative review before judicial