Opinion
399 CA 21-00338
04-22-2022
Caitlin MCCANN, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. David GORDON, Defendant-Appellant.
DAVID GORDON, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT PRO SE. BRINDISI, MURAD, BRINDISI & PEARLMAN, LLP, UTICA (EVA BRINDISI PEARLMAN OF COUNSEL), FOR PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT.
DAVID GORDON, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT PRO SE.
BRINDISI, MURAD, BRINDISI & PEARLMAN, LLP, UTICA (EVA BRINDISI PEARLMAN OF COUNSEL), FOR PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT.
PRESENT: SMITH, J.P., CENTRA, LINDLEY, AND CURRAN, JJ.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
It is hereby ORDERED that said appeal is unanimously dismissed without costs.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from an order that, inter alia, granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment with respect to liability on her defamation cause of action and denied defendant's cross motion to dismiss the complaint. "The right to appeal from an intermediate order terminates with the entry of a final judgment" ( City of Syracuse v. COR Dev. Co., LLC , 147 A.D.3d 1510, 1510, 46 N.Y.S.3d 813 [2017] [internal quotation marks omitted]; see Matter of Aho , 39 N.Y.2d 241, 248, 383 N.Y.S.2d 285, 347 N.E.2d 647 [1976] ). Because the record of this case in the New York State Courts Electronic Filing System establishes that a final judgment was entered on January 7, 2022, of which we take judicial notice (see 1591 Second Ave. LLC v. Metropolitan Transp. Auth. , 202 A.D.3d 582, 583, 163 N.Y.S.3d 56 [1st Dept. 2022] ), defendant's appeal from the intermediate order must be dismissed (see McDonough v. Transit Rd. Apts., LLC , 164 A.D.3d 1603, 1603, 82 N.Y.S.3d 760 [4th Dept. 2018] ; see generally Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. v. Roberts & Roberts, Inc. , 63 A.D.2d 566, 567, 404 N.Y.S.2d 608 [1st Dept. 1978] ).