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For April 5, 2024 through April 11, 2024, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

MATTER OF LEBOWITZ v BOARD OF EDUCATION (220 AD3d 537):
1st Dept. App. Div. order of 10/19/23; affirmance; sua sponte examination of whether a substantial constitutional question is directly involved to support an appeal taken as of right; Schools--Teachers--Whether a rational basis existed for denial of petitioner's request for a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for New York City Department of Education Employees; Supreme Court, New York County, denied the petition to annul a determination of the City of New York Reasonable Accommodation Appeals Panel, dated February 15, 2022, which denied petitioner's request for a religious exemption from the COVID–19 vaccination requirement for employees of the New York City Department of Education, granted respondents' cross motion to dismiss the petition, and dismissed the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78; App. Div. affirmed.

PEOPLE v WILLIS (McKENZIE) (79 Misc 3d 127[A], 2023 NY Slip Op 50631[U]):
1st Dept. App. Term order of 6/26/23; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Wilson, Ch. J., 3/18/24; Motor Vehicles--Aggravated Unlicensed Operation--Whether the accusatory instrument charging aggravated unlicensed operation was jurisdictionally defective because it failed to provide reasonable cause to believe that defendant knew, or had reason to know, that his license was suspended; misdemeanor complaint alleged that defendant failed to answer a New York traffic summons but did not allege that defendant received the summons or was provided notice of license suspension; New York City Criminal Court, New York County, convicted defendant, upon a plea of guilty, of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree and imposed sentence; App. Term affirmed.