Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M233002

E/afaREINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

JOHN M. LEVENTHAL

LEONARD B. AUSTIN

LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.

2017-01391 Evan Ortiz, appellant, v MTA Bus Company, et al., respondents. (Index No. 14953/14)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by Friedman & Simon, LLP, for leave to withdraw as counsel for the appellant on an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated November 2, 2016, and, in effect, and to enlarge the time to perfect 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 motion is granted and on or before June 30, 2017, Friedman & Simon, LLP, shall serve its client by one of the methods specified in CPLR 2103(c), with a copy of this decision and order on motion and shall file proof of such service with the Clerk of this Court; and it is further,

ORDERED that no further proceedings shall be taken against the appellant, without leave of the Court, until the expiration of 30 days after service upon him of a copy of this decision and order on motion; and it is further,

ORDERED that the appellant's time to perfect the appeal is enlarged until August 29, 2017, and the record or appendix on the appeal and the appellant's brief shall be served and filed on or before that date.

RIVERA, J.P., LEVENTHAL, AUSTIN and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court