Mars v Dobrish (2009 NY Slip Op 06765)

Mars v Dobrish

2009 NY Slip Op 06765 [66 AD3d 401]

October 1, 2009

Appellate Division, First Department

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

As corrected through Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Arnold Joseph Mars, Appellant,
v
Robert Z. Dobrish, Esq., et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.

—[*1] Howard A. Altschuler, New York, for appellant.

Dobrish Zeif Gross, LLP, New York (Erin McMurray-Killelea of counsel), for Robert Z. Dobrish, Hoffinger, Friedland, Dobrish & Stern P.C. and Nina Gross, respondents.

Ohrenstein & Brown, LLP, Garden City (Lauren M. Pape of counsel), for Aimee M. Maddalena, respondent.

Appeal from order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Friedman, J.), entered June 15, 2007, which denied plaintiff's motion to reject the report of the Special Referee, confirmed that report, and directed plaintiff to file a note of issue, unanimously dismissed as academic, without costs.

Our affirmance (66 AD3d 403 [2009] [decided herewith]) of a subsequent order dismissing the complaint renders this appeal academic. Concur—Andrias, J.P., Nardelli, Moskowitz, Renwick and Freedman, JJ. [See 2007 NY Slip Op 31644(U).]