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For June 13, 2025 through June 19, 2025, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

PEOPLE v BRAZEAL (JARELLE) (235 AD3d 890):
APL-2025-00111 2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 2/19/25; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Wilson, Ch. J., 6/3/25; Crimes--Sentence--Probation--Whether Supreme Court properly imposed a probation condition, under Penal Law § 65.10, requiring defendant to consent to searches of his person, vehicle, and place of abode for firearms and other weapons by a probation officer or agent; Supreme Court, Kings County, convicted defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted assault in the second degree, and imposed a sentence of probation; App. Div. affirmed.

MATTER OF SENECA MEADOWS v TOWN OF SENECA FALLS (233 AD3d 1430):
APL-2025-00116 Stipulation of 5/28/25; discontinued claims, sua sponte examination of whether the stipulation appealed from finally determines the action within the meaning of the Constitution; Parties--Standing--Whether petitioner-plaintiff has standing to challenge the Town's passage of Local Law #3 under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) without alleging a specific environmental harm because petitioner-plaintiff's property was directly targeted by the Local Law; whether the Town Board failed to comply with the requirements of SEQRA by failing to take a "hard look" at the environmental impacts of the Local Law; Supreme Court, Seneca County, in a combined CPLR article 78 proceeding and declaratory judgment action, granted the motion of petitioner-plaintiff for partial summary judgment on its first cause of action and declared Town of Seneca Falls Local Law No. 3 of 2016 invalid; App. Div., with two Justices dissenting, reversed, denied the motion, and vacated the declaration.