Wicks v Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Motion No: 2020-04496
Slip Opinion No: 2022 NY Slip Op 75305(U)
Decided on December 7, 2022
Appellate Division, Second 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.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M286285

AFA/

COLLEEN D. DUFFY, J.P.

REINALDO E. RIVERA

LINDA CHRISTOPHER

HELEN VOUTSINAS, JJ.

2020-04496

Jeffrey Wicks, etc., respondent, v Visiting

Nurse Service of New York, et al., appellants.

(Index No. 608803/2016)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, dated May 5, 2020.

By order to show cause dated January 21, 2022, the parties were directed to show cause before this Court why the appeals should or should not be dismissed on the ground that the notices of appeal were filed in violation of the statutory stay of proceedings which arose upon the death of James Wicks, on April 12, 2020, and vacating the order as a nullity. Application by the appellant Visiting Nurse Service of New York Home Care II to withdraw its appeal.

Now, upon the order to show cause and the papers filed in response thereto, and upon the papers filed in support of the application and no papers having been filed in opposition or in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is granted, the appeals are dismissed, without costs or disbursements (see CPLR 1015[a]; JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. v Rosemberg, 90 AD3d 713), and the order is vacated as a nullity (see CPLR 1015; Matter of Einstoss, 26 NY2d 181); and it is further,

ORDERED that the application is denied as academic.

DUFFY, J.P., RIVERA, CHRISTOPHER and VOUTSINAS, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Maria T. Fasulo

Clerk of the Court