Manuele Verdi etc. v Jeffrey Dinowitz etc. .

Motion No: M-2932

Slip Opinion No: 2018 NYSlipOp 81379(U)

Decided on August 23, 2018

Appellate Division, First Department, Motion Decision

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.

August 23, 2018

Manuele Verdi, etc.,

Plaintiff-Respondent,

v

Jeffrey Dinowitz, etc.,

Defendant-Appellant.

Defendant-appellant having moved for leave to appeal to

the Court of Appeals from the decision and order of this Court, entered on May 1, 2018 (Appeal No. 6411) [M-2930], And Carl E. Heastie, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, having moved for leave to appear as an amicus and to make a submission on defendant's behalf [M-2932],Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motions, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that defendant-appellant's motion for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeals is denied [M-2930]. Carl E. Heastie's motion is granted to the extent of deeming the amicus curiae brief submitted with the moving papers as filed, the arguments therein having been considered by this Court. ENTERED: August 23, 2018

_____________________ DEPUTY CLERK

Present: Hon. Peter Tom, Justice Presiding, Richard T. Andrias Troy K. Webber Marcy L. Kahn, Justices

M-2932

M-2930

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