Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M236364

E/afa

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS

ROBERT J. MILLER

BETSY BARROS, JJ.

2015-00778, 2015-09572, 2015-10282, 2015-10284, 2015-10287 Marcelle B. Bichotte, plaintiff-respondent, v Ricardo O. Dunner, appellant; New York City Human Resources Administration, nonparty-respondent. (Index No. 54403/11)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the plaintiff-respondent, inter alia, to dismiss appeals from five orders of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated December 16, 2014, April 27, 2015, August 17, 2015 (two orders), and August 21, 2015, respectively, for failure to comply with a decision and order on motion of this Court dated March 13, 2017, and on the ground that the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated upon entry of a judgment in the above-entitled action dated March 16, 2017. Cross motion by the appellant, inter alia, to impose a sanction upon counsel for the plaintiff-respondent.

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

ORDERED that the branch of the motion which is to dismiss the appeals from the orders on the ground that the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated upon entry of a judgment in the above-entitled action dated March 16, 2017, is granted and the appeals are dismissed, without costs or disbursements (see Matter of Aho, 39 NY2d 241); and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion is otherwise denied as academic; and it is further,

ORDERED that the cross motion is denied.

RIVERA, J.P., CHAMBERS, MILLER and BARROS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court