Matter of Cayuga Nation v Kettle (2025 NY Slip Op 03430)
Matter of Cayuga Nation v Kettle
2025 NY Slip Op 03430 [239 AD3d 1298]
June 6, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, August 6, 2025


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 In the Matter of Cayuga Nation, Appellant,
v
Leanna Kettle, Respondent.

Barlcay Damon LLP, Rochester (Michael E. Nicholson of counsel), for petitioner-appellant.

Joseph J. Heath, Syracuse and Law Offices of Michael D. Sliger, New York City, for respondent-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Seneca County (Barry L. Porsch, A.J.), entered November 30, 2023. The order granted the motion of respondent to vacate a default judgment.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Petitioner appeals from an order that granted respondent's motion to vacate a default judgment, which domesticated a judgment of the Cayuga Nation Civil Court against respondent. We affirm for the reasons stated in Matter of Cayuga Nation v John (239 AD3d 1287 [4th Dept 2025]). Present—Bannister, J.P., Montour, Smith and Nowak, JJ.