Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M179039

E/ct

PETER B. SKELOS, J.P.

RUTH C. BALKIN

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL

SANDRA L. SGROI, JJ.

2012-02306 In the Matter of Cameron McC. (Anonymous). Orange County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Alicia S. (Anonymous), respondent-appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Jade McC. (Anonymous). Orange County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Alicia S. (Anonymous), respondent-appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 2) In the Matter of Jonathan McC. (Anonymous). Orange County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Alicia S. (Anonymous), respondent-appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 3) (Docket Nos. N-29/31-11, N-2560/2562-11)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by Edward C. Bruno, counsel assigned to prosecute an appeal from an order of the Family Court, Orange County, dated December 15, 2011, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appellant has abandoned the appeal by failing to respond to correspondence sent to her by assigned counsel. By order to show cause dated July 22, 2014, the respondent-appellant was directed to show cause before this Court why an order should or should not be made and entered dismissing the appeal on the ground that she has abandoned the appeal, and the motion by assigned counsel to be relieved was held in abeyance in the interim.

Now, upon the order to show cause and no papers having been filed in response thereto, and 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 motion to dismiss the appeal is granted, and the appeal is dismissed (see 22 NYCRR 670.8[f]); and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion by assigned counsel, in effect, to be relieved is granted.

SKELOS, J.P., BALKIN, LEVENTHAL and SGROI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court