Tsachalis v. City of Mt. Vernon

—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for malicious prosecution, Richard L. Giampa, attorney for the *421plaintiff, appeals, by permission, from four orders of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Donovan, J.), dated May 10, 2000, and two orders of the same court, dated May 31, 2000, each of which summarily adjudged him to be in criminal contempt of court and imposed a fine.

Ordered that the orders are reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and the contempt adjudications are vacated.

We find no basis in the record for the determinations summarily adjudicating the appellant…