Ambra v Awad
Motion No: 2010-10748
Slip Opinion No: 2010 NY Slip Op 88223(U)
Decided on November 18, 2010
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

M111143

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REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

THOMAS A. DICKERSON

PLUMMER E. LOTT

SHERI S. ROMAN, JJ.

2010-10748

John Ambra, plaintiff,

v Joseph T. Awad, etc., et al., defendants.

(Index No. 487/05)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the defendants Joseph T. Awad, individually and as corporate officer of Silberstein, Awad & Miklos, a professional corporation, and Gregory D. Bellatone, for leave to appeal to this Court from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, entered November 5, 2010, and 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 no papers having been filed in opposition or in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is for leave to appeal is denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that on the Court's own motion, the appeal purportedly taken as of right is dismissed, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is to stay the trial in the above-entitled action, pending hearing and determination of the appeal, is denied as academic.

RIVERA, J.P., DICKERSON, LOTT and ROMAN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Matthew G. Kiernan

Clerk of the Court