Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M170831

E/ct

MARK C. DILLON, J.P.

L. PRISCILLA HALL

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

2014-01520 Bhanmattie Rajkumar Kumar, respondent, v PI Associates, LLC, appellant-responden Pretty Girl, respondent-appellant, et al., de (Index No. 26568/11)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION t, fendant.

Motion by PI Associates, LLC, for leave to appeal to this Court from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, entered February 20, 2014, and to stay all proceedings in the above-entitled action, except determination of pending motions for a directed verdict, pending hearing and determination of the appeal. Separate motion by Pretty Girl for leave to cross-appeal to this Court from the order entered February 20, 2014.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion by PI Associates, LLC, and the papers filed in opposition and in relation thereto, and the papers filed in support of the motion by Pretty Girl 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 appeal and the separate motion for leave to cross appeal are granted; and it is further,

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is to stay all proceedings in the above-entitled action, except determination of pending motions for a directed verdict, pending hearing and determination of the appeal is granted, and all proceedings in the above-entitled action, except determination of pending motions for a directed verdict, are stayed pending hearing and determination of the appeal and cross appeal on condition that the appeal is perfected on or before April 21, 2014; and it is further,

ORDERED that in the event the appeal is not perfected on or before April 21, 2014,

the Court, on its own motion, may vacate the stay, without further notice, or the respondent may move to vacate the stay, on three days notice.

DILLON, J.P., HALL, AUSTIN and DUFFY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court