Opinion
12-20-2016
Motion for leave to appeal denied. The Court takes this occasion to restate the rule that denial of a motion for leave to appeal is not equivalent to an affirmance and has no precedential value (see Matter of Marchant v. Mead–Morrison Mfg. Co., 252 N.Y. 284, 297–298, 169 N.E. 386 [1929] ).