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For April 29, 2022 through May 5, 2022, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

MATTER OF CITY OF SYRACUSE v SYRACUSE PBA (198 AD3d 1322):
4th Dept. App. Div. order of 10/1/21; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by the Court of Appeals on 4/26/22; Local Laws--Whether the lower courts correctly determined that police discipline is not a permissible subject of collective bargaining in Syracuse because provisions of state law (Second Class Cities Law) committing police discipline to the control of local authorities had been in existence before enactment of relevant provisions of the Civil Service Law were repealed or otherwise superseded by subsequently enacted local laws; Supreme Court, Onondaga County, denied petitioner's article 75 petition to stay arbitration and granted the respondent's cross motion to dismiss the petition and to compel arbitration; App. Div. affirmed.

MOTONDO v CITY OF SYRACUSE (198 AD3d 1321):
4th Dept. App. Div. order of 10/1/21; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by the Court of Appeals on 4/26/22; Local Laws--Whether the lower courts correctly determined that firefighter discipline is not a permissible subject of collective bargaining in Syracuse because provisions of state law (Second Class Cities Law) committing firefighter discipline to the control of local authorities had been in existence before enactment of relevant provisions of the Civil Service Law were repealed or otherwise superseded by subsequently enacted local laws; Supreme Court, Onondaga County, granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and denied defendant's cross motion for summary judgment; App. Div. affirmed.

SHATZ v CHERTOK (203 AD3d 527):
1st Dept. App. Div. order of 3/15/22; affirmance; sua sponte examination of whether the order appealed from finally determines the action within the meaning of the Constitution and whether any basis exists for an appeal as of right; Motions and Orders; Supreme Court, New York County, among other things, denied defendants' motion for leave to renew a previously denied motion to dismiss the complaint and granted plaintiff's cross motion for costs and sanctions and, thereafter, awarded plaintiff $15,000 in attorneys' fees; App. Div. affirmed the 2/4/21 order to the extent appealed from and as limited by briefs and remanded matter to Supreme Court for a hearing on sanctions, including reasonable attorney's fees in connection with the appeal; and affirmed the 2/18/21 order to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs.