Collazo v Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority
Motion No: 2008-11534
Slip Opinion No: 2009 NYSlipOp 61366(U)
Decided on January 20, 2009
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

M81288

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A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

MARK C. DILLON

JOSEPH COVELLO

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, JJ.

2008-11534

Joehau Collazo, respondent,

v Metropolitan Suburban Bus Authority,

et al., appellants, et al., defendants.

(Index No. 14223/02)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellants to confirm that an automatic stay exists pursuant to CPLR 5519(a)(1) pending hearing and determination of an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered December 10, 2008, or, in the alternative, pursuant to CPLR 5519(c) to stay the trial in the above-entitled action pending hearing and determination of the appeal.

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

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is pursuant to CPLR 5519(c) to stay the trial is granted, and the trial in the above-entitled action is stayed pending hearing and determination of the appeal on condition that the appeal is perfected on or before February 19, 2009; and it is further,

ORDERED that in the event the appeal is not perfected on or before February 19, 2009, the court, on its own motion, may vacate the stay, or the respondent may move to vacate the stay, on three days notice; and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion is otherwise denied.

PRUDENTI, P.J., DILLON, COVELLO and LEVENTHAL, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court