Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M58060

E/mv

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

DAVID S. RITTER

EDWARD D. CARNI

WILLIAM E. McCARTHY, JJ.

2007-04628 In the Matter of Richard Reyes, appellant, v Lucian LeClaire, respondent. (Index No. 06-16756)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant for leave to prosecute an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, dated January 24, 2007, as a poor person and to waive the filing fee.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and no papers having been filed in opposition or relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is for leave to proceed on the original papers is granted, and the appeal will be heard on the original papers (including the transcript of the proceedings, if any) and on the briefs of the parties, who are directed to file nine copies of their respective briefs and to serve one copy on each other; and it is further,

ORDERED that branches of the motion which are for free transcripts and to waive the filing fee are denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that on the court's own motion, the appellant's time to perfect the appeal by causing the original papers constituting the record on the appeal to be filed in the office of the Clerk of this court (see 22 NYCRR 670.9[d][2]) and by serving and filing his brief on the appeal is enlarged until October 5, 2007.

RIVERA, J.P., RITTER, CARNI and McCARTHY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court