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For January 6, 2023 through January 12, 2023, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

MATTER OF THE CLAIM OF LAZALEE v WEGMANS (201 AD3d 1110):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 1/6/22; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by the Court of Appeals, 12/15/22; Workers' Compensation--Judicial Review--Whether employer's request to cross-examine claimant's treating physician was untimely; App. Div. affirmed 7/29/20 Workers' Compensation Board decision which determined that claimant established a claim for injury to his left hand.

NOVAS (DANNY), PEOPLE v (204 AD3d 613):
1st Dept. App. Div. order of 4/28/22; reversal; leave to appeal granted by Wilson, J., 12/21/22; Motor Vehicles--Leaving the Scene of Incident--Whether defendant's conviction of leaving the scene of an incident without reporting was supported by legally sufficient evidence; whether there was legally sufficient evidence that defendant knew or had "cause to know" that personal injury had been caused to the victim under Vehicle and Traffic Law § 600 (2) (a); Supreme Court, New York County, granted defendant's CPL 330.30(1) motion to set aside a jury verdict convicting him of leaving the scene of an incident without reporting, and dismissed the indictment; App. Div. reversed, reinstated the indictment and verdict, and remanded for resentencing.

WILLIAMS (DAVID), PEOPLE v (203 AD3d 612):
1st Dept. App Div. order of 3/24/22; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Troutman, J., 11/15/22; Crimes--Suppression Hearing--Whether, after suppressing on Fourth Amendment grounds an undercover officer's confirmatory identification of defendant, the hearing court correctly found that the testimony adduced at the hearing demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence that the officer had an independent source for the identification; whether the hearing court properly denied defendant's request for a separate independent source hearing; Supreme Court, New York County, convicted defendant, following a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentenced him, as a second felony drug offender previously convicted of a violent felony; App. Div. affirmed.

For January 13, 2023 through January 19, 2023, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

STATE OF NEW YORK v SUMMERS (— AD3d —, 2022 NY Slip Op 06974):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 12/8/22; 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 to support and appeal as of right; Judgments--Default Judgment--Vacatur; Supreme Court, Albany County, denied defendant's motion to vacate a default judgment; App. Div. affirmed.