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For August 8, 2025 through August 14, 2025, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

PEOPLE ex rel BARTA v MAGINLEY-LIDDIE (239 AD3d 920):
APL-2025-00148 2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 6-18-25; dismissal; sua sponte examination of whether a substantial constitutional question is directly involved in the order appealed from; Habeas Corpus--Whether the writ was properly dismissed as academic; App. Div. dismissed as academic the writ of habeas corpus in the nature of an application to release Amneris Berrios upon her own recognizance or, in the alternative, to set reasonable bail upon Queens County Indictment No. 21433/2025.

BUENOS HILL INC. v SARATOGA SPRINGS (� AD3d �, 2025 NY Slip Op 04064):
APL-2025-00156 3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 7/3/25; affirmance; sua sponte examination of whether the order appealed from finally determines the action within the meaning of the Constitution and whether a substantial constitutional question is directly involved in the order appealed from; Courts--Ripeness Doctrine--Whether the courts below properly held that petitioner's claim that the Marihuana Regulation and Tax Act's opt-out window for municipalities is violative of the home rule protection afforded to local government by the New York Constitution is ripe for judicial review; Supreme Court, Saratoga County, in a combined proceeding under CPLR article 78 and action for declaratory judgment, granted certain respondents' motion to dismiss the amended petition/complaint against them; App. Div. affirmed.

BURROWS v 75-25 153rd STREET (239 AD3d 564):
APL-2025-00151 1st Dept. App. Div. order of 6/26/25; affirmance; sua sponte examination of whether the terms of the Court's remittitur were violated; Appeal--Remittitur--Whether the Appellate Division contravened this Court's remittitur by reinstating plaintiff Waller's rent concession overcharge claim and plaintiffs' claims for declaratory relief; Supreme Court, New York County, denied defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint; Supreme Court, New York County, effectively granted defendant's motion for leave to reargue and, upon reargument, adhered to its prior determinations denying defendant's motion to dismiss plaintiff's rent overcharge claims and plaintiff Waller's separate claim asserting that defendant incorrectly increased rent when renewing Waller's rent-stabilized lease after the enactment of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019; App. Div. reversed and granted motion to dismiss; Supreme Court, New York County, upon a stipulation discontinuing defendant's counterclaim for attorney's fees, entered judgment in defendant's favor; Court of Appeals modified the judgment appealed from and so much of the Appellate Division order as brought up for review by remitting to the Appellate Division for further proceedings in accordance with the Court's opinion and, as so modified, affirmed; App. Div. affirmed November 2021 and May 2022 Supreme Court orders.

PEOPLE v LORA (MIGUELINA) (236 AD3d 820):
APL-2025-00145 2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 3/12/25; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Halligan, J., 7/25/25; Crimes--Sentence--Probation--Whether Supreme Court properly imposed a probation condition, under Penal Law � 65.10, requiring defendant, who was convicted of aggravated driving while intoxicated, to consent to searches of her person, vehicle, and place of abode; Supreme Court, Queens County, convicted defendant of aggravated driving while intoxicated, upon her plea of guilty, and imposed sentence; App. Div. affirmed.

PEOPLE v MEARS (STEPHEN) (235 AD3d 779):
APL-2025-00147 2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 2/13/25; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Halligan, J., 7/29/25; Crimes--Endangering Welfare of Child--Whether the defense of justification applies to the crime of endangering the welfare of a child and, if so, whether there was any reasonable view of the evidence that defendant's conduct was justified such that a justification charge should have been given to the jury regarding that count; County Court, Suffolk County, convicted defendant of endangering the welfare of a child, upon a jury verdict, and imposed sentence; App. Div. affirmed.