           SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
             Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department

1341
CA 15-00298
PRESENT: SCUDDER, P.J., SMITH, VALENTINO, WHALEN, AND DEJOSEPH, JJ.


MARY DELUCA, INDIVIDUALLY, AND AS
CLASS REPRESENTATIVE, ET AL.,
PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS,

                      V                           MEMORANDUM AND ORDER


TONAWANDA COKE CORPORATION, ESTATE OF
J.D. CRANE, DECEASED, MARK KAMHOLZ,
DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS,
ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
(APPEAL NO. 2.)


HODGSON RUSS LLP, BUFFALO (HUGH M. RUSS, III, OF COUNSEL), FOR
DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS.

WILENTZ, GOLDMAN & SPITZER, P.A., NEW YORK CITY (ALFRED M. ANTHONY OF
COUNSEL), COLLINS & COLLINS ATTORNEYS, LLC, BUFFALO, GORDON & GORDON,
SPRINGFIELD, NEW JERSEY, AND HOBBIE, CORRIGAN & BERTUCIO, P.C.,
EATONTOWN, NEW JERSEY, FOR PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS.


     Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Paula L.
Feroleto, J.), entered January 7, 2015. The order, inter alia,
granted in part the motion of plaintiffs for class certification.

     It is hereby ORDERED that the order so appealed from is
unanimously affirmed without costs.

     Same memorandum as in DeLuca v Tonawanda Coke Corp. ([appeal No.
1] ___ AD3d ___ [Dec. 31, 2015]).




Entered:    December 31, 2015                   Frances E. Cafarell
                                                Clerk of the Court
