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For May 19, 2023 through May 25, 2023, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

MATTER OF SUNE G. v MICHELLE M. (2023 NY Slip Op 64818[U]):
1st Dept. App. Div. order of 4/11/23; dismissal; sua sponte examination of whether the order appealed from finally determines the proceeding within the meaning of the Constitution and whether any jurisdictional basis exists for an appeal as of right; Parent and Child; App. Div. denied petitioners' motions to vacate and/or stay enforcement of a November 9, 2022 Family Court order (among other things, denying motions to vacate and/or stay enforcement of underlying orders) and the underlying orders entered December 4, 2020 or, in the alternative to stay enforcement of same pending hearing and determination of the appeal and for a calendar preference, granted the subject child's cross motion to dismiss the appeal, and dismissed the appeal.

GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER v. KOUKIS (215 AD3d 448):
1st Department App. Div order of 4/11/23; modification; sua sponte examination of whether (1) the Appellate Division order, insofar as it affirmed that portion of the Supreme Court order granting the motion to quash the post judgment subpoenas and denying as premature plaintiff's cross motion to permit alternative service of subpoenas, finally determines the action within the meaning of the Constitution and (2) whether the two-Justice dissent is on a question of law; Judgments--Default Judgment--Vacatur-- Whether shareholder authorized attorney who signed stipulation with law firm to waive all jurisdictional defenses on his behalf; whether complaint failed to allege sufficiently that shareholder participated in allegedly fraudulent conveyance, precluding exercise of personal jurisdiction; Supreme Court, New York County, granted so much of defendant George Koukis's motion to vacate the default judgment and dismiss the complaint on the grounds that the appearance of counsel was unauthorized, denied so much of the motion as based on lack of jurisdiction, and set the matter down for a traverse hearing to determine whether service was proper pursuant to CPLR 308(2), and granted Koukis's motion to quash postjudgment subpoenas, and denied plaintiff's cross motion to permit alternate service of the subpoenas as premature; App. Div. modified by vacating the default judgment and granting dismissal of the complaint based on lack of personal jurisdiction, and otherwise affirmed.

For May 26, 2023 through June 1, 2023, no preliminary appeal statements were filed.