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For March 23, 2018 through March 29, 2018, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

OBOT v DENNIS EVCHICH AGENCY, INC. (158 AD3d 1070):
4th Dept. App. Div. order of 2/2/18; affirmance; sua sponte examination 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 an appeal as of right; Courts--Small Claims--Whether Town Court properly dismissed plaintiff's claim for failure to sue the proper party; Amherst Town Court, judgment dismissed plaintiff's claim and dismissed defendant's counterclaim; County Court, Erie County, affirmed; App. Div. affirmed.

PATOUHAS, MATTER OF v COLANGELO (151 AD3d 729):
2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 6/7/17; dismissal; sua sponte examination whether a substantial constitutional question is directly involved to support an appeal as of right; Proceeding Against Body or Officer--Prohibition--In proceeding seeking to prohibit respondent Justice of Supreme Court, Westchester County, from presiding over divorce action pending in that court, and from enforcing certain orders issued in the action, whether petitioner established a clear legal right to the relief sought; alleged due process violation; App. Div. denied the petition and dismissed the CPLR article 78 proceeding.

WEISSBROD GURVEY v STATE OF NEW YORK (2018 NY Slip Op 64778[U]):
1st Dept. App. Div. order of 2/20/18; dismissal; sua sponte examination 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 an appeal as of right; Appeal--Dismissal--Whether the Appellate Division properly dismissed the appeal for failure to timely perfect; alleged deprivation of plaintiff's constitutional rights under the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments; Supreme Court, New York County, among other things, granted certain defendants' motions to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against them and denied plaintiff's motions for various relief; App. Div., among other things, granted defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiff's appeal from failure to timely perfect.

WILLIAMS v BEEMILLER, INC. (— AD3d —, 2018 NY Slip Op 00939):
4th Dept. App. Div. order of 2/9/18; reversal; Courts--Jurisdiction--Long Arm Jurisdiction--Whether exercise of personal jurisdiction over defendant under New York's long-arm statute (see CPLR 302[a][3]) comports with federal due process; defendant, out-of-state dealer of firearms, sold a gun in Ohio that was transported to New York and used in a shooting that injured plaintiff; whether jurisdiction over defendant can be obtained under an agency or alter ego theory; Supreme Court, Erie County, denied the motion of defendant Brown for summary judgment dismissing the first amended complaint against him; App. Div. reversed, granted the motion, and dismissed the first amended complaint against defendant Brown.