Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M249257

E/afa

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, J.P.

RUTH C. BALKIN

SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX

ANGELA G. IANNACCI, JJ.

2017-05407 In the Matter of Miriah S. (Anonymous). Westchester County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Jimmy S. (Anonymous), Jr., respondent-appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 1) In the Matter of Jimmy S. (Anonymous) III. Westchester County Department of Social Services, petitioner-respondent; Jimmy S. (Anonymous), Jr., respondent-appellant, et al., respondent. (Proceeding No. 2) (Docket No. N-10591-15, N-10592-15, N-8452-16, N-8453-16)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE

Motion by the appellant's assigned counsel on an appeal from an order of the Family Court, Westchester County, dated May 2, 2017, in effect, to be relieved on the ground that the appeal has been rendered academic.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and no papers having been filed in relation or in opposition thereto, it is

ORDERED that on the Court's own motion, the parties to the appeal are 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 the appeal has been rendered academic (see CPLR 5511) and/or as abandoned, by each filing an affirmation or affidavit on that issue in the office of the Clerk of this Court and serving one copy of the same on each other on or before May 17, 2018; and it is further,

ORDERED that the motion by assigned counsel, in effect, to be relieved is held in abeyance in the interim; and it is further,

ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court, or her designee, is directed to serve a copy of this order to show cause upon the parties to the appeal by regular mail.

MASTRO, J.P., BALKIN, HINDS-RADIX and IANNACCI, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court