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For May 10, 2019 through May 16, 2019, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

ALSTON (RICKEY), PEOPLE v (169 AD3d 1):
1st Dept. App. Div. order of 1/22/19; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Renwick, J., 4/3/19; Rule 500.11 review pending; Crimes--Arraignment--Whether trial court's failure to follow procedure set forth in CPL 200.60 was harmless error; trial court required defendant to decide, prior to jury selection, whether to admit his prior conviction; Evidence--Whether trial court providently exercised its discretion in admitting a cell phone video recording of a restaurant's surveillance videotape; Sentence--Whether defendant was properly adjudicated a second felony offender based on a Washington D.C. drug conviction; Supreme Court, New York County, convicted defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, menacing in the second degree and criminal mischief in the fourth degree, and imposed; App. Div. affirmed.

MATTER OF BAFUMO; WEINHOFER (171 AD3d 1328):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 4/11/19; affirmance with dissents; sua sponte examination whether the two-Justice dissent at the Appellate Division is on a question of law; Names--Change of Name--Whether mother raised reasonable objections to birth father's petition to change five-year old child's name; Supreme Court, Ulster County, granted petitioner's application pursuant to Civil Rights Law article 6, to change the surname of the subject child; App. Div. affirmed.

EMERALD INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LTD., MATTER OF v TAX APPEALS TRIBUNAL OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (2019 NY Slip Op 66114[U]):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 3/21/19; dismissal of CPLR article 78 petition; sua sponte examination of whether a substantial constitutional question is directly involved to support an appeal as of right; Taxation--Sales and Use Taxes--Proceeding challenging adverse determination by Tax Appeals Tribunal; alleged constitutional violations; App. Div. granted the motion to dismiss the CPLR article 78 petition seeking to challenge a determination of the Tax Appeals Tribunal of the State of New York.

GORDON (TYRONE D.), PEOPLE v (169 AD3d 714):
2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 2/6/19; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Wilson, J., 4/22/19; Crimes--Search Warrant---Whether Supreme Court properly granted suppression of physical evidence seized from two vehicles during execution of search warrant that permitted a search of the "entire premises" located at a specific residential address, but did not particularize that a search of the vehicles was permitted; Supreme Court, Suffolk County, granted that branch of defendant's omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence seized from two vehicles; App. Div. affirmed.

LANIOX v CITY OF NEW YORK (170 AD3d 519):
1st Dept. App. Div. 3/19/19; reversal with dissents; Rule 500.11 review pending; Negligence--Maintenance of Premises--Whether plaintiff raised an issue of fact as to whether assailant was an intruder, rather than tenant or invitee, in building where plaintiff was attacked; Supreme Court, Bronx County, denied the motion of defendant New York City Housing Authority for summary judgment dismissing the complaint; App. Div. reversed and granted the motion.

PETTUS v IMPERIAL PARKING SYSTEMS (INDEX NO. 2389-18) (2019 NY Slip Op 68635[U]):
1st Dept. App. Term order of 4/17/19; sua sponte examination whether an appeal lies from the paper dated April 17, 2019; Appeal--Matters Appealable; App. Term declined to sign appellant's application pursuant to CPLR 5704(b).

PETTUS v BOARD OF DIRECTORS (INDEX NO. 2413-18) (2019 NY Slip Op 68636[U]):
1st Dept. App. Term order of 4/17/19; sua sponte examination whether an appeal lies from the paper dated April 17, 2019; Appeal--Matters Appealable; App. Term declined to sign appellant's application pursuant to CPLR 5704(b).