Dismissal of the appeal is warranted because Taveras failed to assemble a proper appellate record. Notably, the order being appealed from explicitly referenced Supreme Court's reliance upon the affirmation of plaintiffs' counsel to find that Taveras failed to appear for a court-ordered deposition on March 22, 2010. The attorney's affirmation was a necessary paper upon which the subject "order was founded" and should have been included in the record (CPLR 5526; Rules of App...
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