                            State of New York
                     Supreme Court, Appellate Division
                        Third Judicial Department
Decided and Entered: June 30, 2016                       521059
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JOHNATHAN JOHNSON,
                      Appellant,
     v
                                              MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
STATE OF NEW YORK,
                    Respondent.
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Calendar Date:   May 24, 2016

Before:   Lahtinen, J.P., McCarthy, Garry, Clark and Mulvey, JJ.

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     Johnathan Johnson, Malone, appellant pro se.

      Eric T. Schneiderman, Attorney General, Albany (Owen Demuth
of counsel), for respondent.

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Lahtinen, J.P.

      Appeal from an order of the Court of Claims (DeBow, J.),
entered April 23, 2015, which granted defendant's motion to
dismiss the claim.

      In 2009, claimant, an inmate at Upstate Correctional
Facility, filed a claim alleging that he had been denied certain
prescribed medication and access to his legal mail and that he
had repeatedly been served rice cakes that tasted bitter.
Defendant answered and asserted numerous affirmative defenses and
subsequently sought dismissal of the claim. After claimant
failed to submit any papers in opposition to defendant's motion,
the Court of Claims granted the motion upon his default and
dismissed the claim. Claimant now appeals.
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      It is well settled that no appeal is permitted from an
order entered upon a party's default (see CPLR 5511), the sole
remedy being to move to vacate the default order and, if that
motion is denied, to appeal such denial (see CPLR 5015 [a] [1];
Matter of Susan UU. v Scott VV., 119 AD3d 1117, 1118 [2014];
Matter of Jay v Fischer, 102 AD3d 1021, 1021 [2013]; DeLuke v
Albany Rest. Supply, Inc., 42 AD3d 601, 601 [2007]). Here,
claimant did not file any responsive papers to defendant's
motion, despite evidence in the record establishing that he was
properly served with the motion. Accordingly, the Court of
Claims properly treated claimant's failure to respond to
defendant's motion as a default (see Matter of County of Albany
[Bowles], 91 AD3d 1132, 1133 [2012]; M & C Bros., Inc. v Torum,
75 AD3d 869, 870-871 [2010]). As claimant has failed to move to
vacate the default order, his appeal is not properly before us.

     McCarthy, Garry, Clark and Mulvey, JJ., concur.



     ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed, without costs.




                             ENTER:




                             Robert D. Mayberger
                             Clerk of the Court
