Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M208451

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RANDALL T. ENG, P.J.

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS

THOMAS A. DICKERSON

FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, JJ.

2015-07436, 2015-07437, 2016-01525, 2016-01526 Elena Strujan, appellant, v Kaufman & Kahn, LLP, et al., respondents. (Index No. 11180/14)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the appellant pro se for leave to appeal to this Court from two orders of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated July 14, 2015, and August 21, 2015, respectively, for poor person relief with respect to those appeals, and to consolidate those appeals with appeals from two orders of the same court dated June 5, 2015, and June 8, 2015, respectively. Separate motion by the appellant pro se to enlarge the time to perfect the appeals from the orders dated June 5, 2015, and June 8, 2015, for poor person relief with respect to those appeals, and to consolidate those appeals with appeals from the orders dated July 14, 2015, and August 21, 2015.

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

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is for leave to appeal from the orders dated July 14, 2015, and August 21, 2015, is denied; and it is further,

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is for poor person relief with respect to the appeals from the orders dated July 14, 2015, and August 21, 2015, and the branches of the motions which are to consolidate those appeals with the appeals from the orders dated June 5, 2015, and June 8, 2015, are denied as academic; and it is further,

ORDERED that the branches of the separate motion which are to enlarge the time to perfect the appeals from the orders dated June 5, 2015, and June 8, 2015, and for leave to prosecute those appeals on the original papers are granted, 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 the time to perfect the appeals by causing the original papers constituting the record on the 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 a brief on the appeals is enlarged until May 20, 2016; and it is further,

ORDERED that the branches of the separate motion which are to waive the filing fee and for free transcripts with respect to the orders dated June 5, 2015, and June 8, 2015, are denied.

ENG, P.J., CHAMBERS, DICKERSON and CONNOLLY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court