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For September 4, 2020 through September 10, 2020, no preliminary appeal statements were filed.

For August 28, 2020 through September 3, 2020, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

ACE SECURITIES CORP. v DB STRUCTURED PRODUCTS, INC. (177 AD3d 493):
1st Dept. App. Div. order of 11/19/19; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by Court of Appeals, 9/1/20; Limitation of Actions--Commencement of Action after Termination of Prior Action--Whether the trustee of a residential mortgage-backed securities trust is a "plaintiff" within the meaning of CPLR 205(a) when the prior action was commenced by the trust's certificate holders; Supreme Court, New York County, granted defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint with prejudice; App. Div. affirmed.

BEST (HILLARY), PEOPLE v (179 AD3d 1088):
2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 1/29/20; affirmance; sua sponte examination of whether any jurisdictional basis exists for an appeal as of right; Crimes--Appeal; Supreme Court, Queens County, convicted defendant of assault in the second degree, upon his guilty plea, and imposed sentence; App. Div. affirmed.

ANN C. (ANONYMOUS), MATTER OF (185 AD3d 923):
2nd Dept. App. Div. order of 7/22/20; affirmance; sua sponte examination of whether there is any basis for an appeal as of right and whether appellant is a party aggrieved; Parent, Child and Family--Custody--Whether the courts below properly denied the paternal grandfather's petition for custody of the subject child; Family Court, Westchester County, among other things, after a hearing, denied the paternal grandfather's petition for custody of the subject child; App. Div. affirmed.

CENTER ON PRIVACY & TECHNOLOGY, MATTER OF v NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT (181 AD3d 503):
1st Dept. App. Div. order of 3/12/20; affirmance; leave to appeal granted by App. Div., 8/27/20; Constitutional Law--Freedom of Speech--Whether Supreme Court imposed an unconstitutional prior restraint by precluding petitioner from referring to the source of unredacted documents inadvertently disclosed by respondent in response to petitioner's Freedom of Information Law request; Supreme Court, New York County, precluded petitioner from referring to certain unredacted documents inadvertently disclosed by respondent New York City Police Department in response to petitioner's request for documents pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law; App. Div. affirmed.

For August 21, 2020 through August 27, 2020, the following preliminary appeal statements were filed:

BONCZAR v AMERICAN MULTI-CINEMA, INC. (185 AD3d 1423):
4th Dept. App. Div. order of 7/17/20; affirmance; sua sponte examination of whether the prior nonfinal Appellate Division order necessarily affects the order appealed from (CPLR 5601); Labor--Safe Place to Work--Whether plaintiff was entitled to partial summary judgment on the issue of liability under Labor Law Sec. 240(1); Supreme Court, Erie County, upon a jury verdict in favor of defendant, dismissed plaintiff's complaint; App. Div. affirmed.

GREEN, MATTER OF v LaCLAIR (182 AD3d 877):
3rd Dept. App. Div. order of 4/23/20; modification; Rule 500.11 review pending; Crimes--Sex Offenders--Whether petitioner is subject to Executive Law § 259-c(14), which prohibits certain inmates being released from custody from knowingly entering into or upon any school grounds; Supreme Court, Franklin County, dismissed the CPLR article 78 petition; App. Div. (1) modified by reversing so much thereof as dismissed that part of the petition as sought to annul the determination of the Board that petitioner is subject to the school-grounds restrictions; (2) granted the petition to that extent; and (3) as so modified, affirmed.