Platovsky v City of New York
Motion No: 2007-04321
Slip Opinion No: 2007 NYSlipOp 71189(U)
Decided on June 8, 2007
Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M55643

E/sl

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN

PETER B. SKELOS

RUTH C. BALKIN, JJ.

2007-04321

Gerald Platovsky, plaintiffs, v City of New

York, et al., defendants; Beldock, Levine

& Hoffman, LLP, nonparty-respondent;

Kelner & Kelner, Esqs., nonparty-appellant.

(Matter No. 1)

(Index No. 15745/88)

In the Matter of Gerald Platt, et al., appellants,

v Lawfinance Group, Inc., et al., respondents.

(Matter No. 2)

(Index No. 36026/06)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellants, in effect, to stay an arbitration between the parties before the American Arbitration Association, under No. 13 194 Y 02382 06, pending hearing and determination of an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated April 23, 2007.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in opposition thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is granted and the arbitration between the parties before the American Arbitration Association, under No. 13 194 Y 02382 06 is stayed pending hearing and determination of the appeal on condition that the appeal is perfected on or before July 24, 2007; and it is further,

ORDERED that in the event the appeal is not perfected on or before July 24, 2007, the court, on its own motion, may vacate the stay, or the respondents may move to vacate the stay, on three days notice.

RIVERA, J.P., KRAUSMAN, SKELOS and BALKIN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court