Opinion
Motion No: M-2280
07-10-2018
Koya Abe, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. New York University, et al., Defendants-Respondents. Koya Abe, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Index No. 157465/16 New York University, et al., Defendants-Respondents.
Appeals having been taken to this Court by plaintiff-appellant from two orders of the Supreme Court, New York County, entered on or about April 2, 2018, and an order entered on or about April 3, 2018, all three appeals under Index No. 105985/10,And an appeal having been taken to this Court by plaintiff-appellant from an Order of Reference to Hear and Report, of the Supreme Court, New York County, entered on or about December 19, 2017, under Index Nos. 105985/10 and 157465/16, And an appeal having been taken to this Court by plaintiff-appellant from an order of the Supreme Court, New York County, entered on or about December 5, 2017 under Index No. 157465/16 and 105985/10, And plaintiff-appellant now having moved, inter alia, for consolidation of the aforesaid appeals and, upon consolidation, leave to submit oversized briefs; poor person relief; and an enlargement of time to perfect the appeals, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, It is ordered that the motion is granted to the extent of of consolidating the appeals from the two orders entered on or about April 2, 2018, the single order entered on or about April 3, 2018, the single order entered on or about December 19, 2017, and the two orders entered on or about December 5, 2017, under Index Nos. 157465/16 and 105985/10; and plaintiff-appellant is directed to perfect th consolidated appeals on a single brief and record. It is further ordered that plaintiff-appellant is granted poor person relief, only to the extent of permitting the appeals to be heard on the original record and upon a reproduced appellant's brief, on condition that plaintiff-appellant serve one copy of such brief upon the attorney for defendants-respondents and files 8 copies of such brief, together with the original record, pursuant to Rule 600.11 of the Rules of the Court; plaintiff-appellant is permitted to dispense with payment of the required fee for the subpoena and the filing of the record. In addition, it is further ordered that the time to perfect the consolidated appeals is enlarged to the December 2018 Term; and leave to file oversized briefs is denied, without prejudice to plaintiff making the same application, by letter, to the Clerk of the Court (see, Rule 600.10[a][1]).
ENTERED: July 10, 2018
_____________________ CLERK
Present - Hon. Rolando T. Acosta, Presiding Justice, David Friedman John W. Sweeny, Jr. Judith J. Gische Peter Tom, Justices
M-2280
Index No. 105985/10