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MATTER OF WINN-RITZENBERG

570442/09.

26 Misc.3d 1 (2009)

891 N.Y.S.2d 220

2009 NY Slip Op 29422

In the Matter of LEAH URI WINN-RITZENBERG, for Leave to Change His/Her Name To OLIN YURI WINN-RITZENBERG, Appellant.

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department.

Decided October 21, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brenna K. DeVaney, Benjamin P. Edwards, Daniel M. Gonen and Janson Mao, and Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, New York City (Michael D. Silverman and M. Dru Levasseur of counsel), for appellant.

Elizabeth Cooper, Suzanne B. Goldberg, Zachary A. Kramer, Sylvia A. Law and Dean Spade, and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York City (Maeve O'Connor and Andrew Gilden of counsel), and Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York City (Hayley Gorenberg and Cole Thaler of counsel), amici curiae.

McKEON, P.J., SCHOENFELD and SHULMAN, JJ., concur.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam.

Appeal from order, dated February 27, 2009, deemed an application by petitioner for review pursuant to CPLR 5704 (b) (see Matter of Washington, 216 A.D.2d 781 [1995]), and so considered, order reversed, without costs, and the matter remitted to Civil Court for entry of an order granting the petition consistent herewith.

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