Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M157143

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REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

MARK C. DILLON

THOMAS A. DICKERSON

LEONARD B. AUSTIN, JJ.

2012-08113 Kareem B. Taylor, appellant, v State of New York, respondent. (Claim No. 120215)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

2013-04372

In the Matter of Kareem B. Taylor, appellant,

v State University of New York Farmingdale

State College, respondent.

(Index No. 29909/11)

Motion by the appellant to consolidate an appeal from an order of the Court of Claims dated December 23, 2011, with an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, dated March 6, 2012, and for leave to prosecute the appeals as a poor person.

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 for leave to prosecute the appeals on the original papers is granted, and the appeals 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 the branches of the motion which are to consolidate the appeals, to waive payment of the filing fee and for free transcripts are denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that on the Court's own motion the appellant's time to perfect the appeal from the order dated March 6, 2012, by causing the original papers constituting the record for that 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 August 12, 2013.

RIVERA, J.P., DILLON, DICKERSON and AUSTIN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court