PARTNERS & NAPIER INC. V JULIE DEROLLER, JENNIFER RAMPE, JOCELYN PORTER, JOSEPH HERBST, AND HEARD CREATIVE CORPORATION
Motion No: CA 25-02129
Slip Opinion No: 2026 NY Slip Op 61276(U)
Decided on January 21, 2026
Appellate Division, Fourth 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.


January 21, 2026

PRESENT: WHALEN, P.J., LINDLEY, CURRAN, BANNISTER, AND MONTOUR, JJ.

CA 25-02129

PARTNERS & NAPIER INC., PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT,

V

JULIE DEROLLER, JENNIFER RAMPE, JOCELYN PORTER, JOSEPH HERBST, AND HEARD CREATIVE CORPORATION, DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS.


Defendants-appellants having moved upon the return of an order to show cause signed by the Honorable Stephen K. Lindley on December 31, 2025, for a stay of enforcement of an order of the Supreme Court, Monroe County, entered December 2, 2025, pending the hearing and determination of the appeal taken herein,

Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon,

It is hereby ORDERED that the motion insofar as it seeks a stay of enforcement of the trial court's December 2, 2025 order which directs the defendants-appellants to respond to demand Nos. 13, 14, and 15 in the plaintiff-respondents' third notice to produce is granted on the condition that the appeal is perfected on or before February 9, 2026, and

It is further ORDERED that if the appeal so perfected by February 9, 2026, respondents' brief shall be filed and served on or before March 2, 2026, and the appeal shall be added to the term of this Court commencing May 11, 2026.

Entered: January 21, 2026

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court