N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 5501: Scope of review

§ 5501. Scope of review. (a) Generally, from final judgment. An

appeal from a final judgment brings up for review:

1. any non-final judgment or order which necessarily affects the final

judgment, including any which was adverse to the respondent on the

appeal from the final judgment and which, if reversed, would entitle the

respondent to prevail in whole or in part on that appeal, provided that

such non-final judgment or order has not previously been reviewed by the

court to which the appeal is taken;

2. any order denying a new trial or hearing which has not previously

been reviewed by the court to which the appeal is taken;

3. any ruling to which the appellant objected or had no opportunity to

object or which was a refusal or failure to act as requested by the

appellant, and any charge to the jury, or failure or refusal to charge

as requested by the appellant, to which he objected;

4. any remark made by the judge to which the appellant objected; and

5. a verdict after a trial by jury as of right, when the final

judgment was entered in a different amount pursuant to the respondent's

stipulation on a motion to set aside the verdict as excessive or

inadequate; the appellate court may increase such judgment to a sum not

exceeding the verdict or reduce it to a sum not less than the verdict.

(b) Court of appeals. The court of appeals shall review questions of

law only, except that it shall also review questions of fact where the

appellate division, on reversing or modifying a final or interlocutory

judgment, has expressly or impliedly found new facts and a final

judgment pursuant thereto is entered. On an appeal pursuant to

subdivision (d) of section fifty-six hundred one, or subparagraph (ii)

of paragraph one of subdivision (a) of section fifty-six hundred two, or

subparagraph (ii) of paragraph two of subdivision (b) of section

fifty-six hundred two, only the non-final determination of the appellate

division shall be reviewed.

(c) Appellate division. The appellate division shall review questions

of law and questions of fact on an appeal from a judgment or order of a

court of original instance and on an appeal from an order of the supreme

court, a county court or an appellate term determining an appeal. The

notice of appeal from an order directing summary judgment, or directing

judgment on a motion addressed to the pleadings, shall be deemed to

specify a judgment upon said order entered after service of the notice

of appeal and before entry of the order of the appellate court upon such

appeal, without however affecting the taxation of costs upon the appeal.

In reviewing a money judgment in an action in which an itemized verdict

is required by rule forty-one hundred eleven of this chapter in which it

is contended that the award is excessive or inadequate and that a new

trial should have been granted unless a stipulation is entered to a

different award, the appellate division shall determine that an award is

excessive or inadequate if it deviates materially from what would be

reasonable compensation.

(d) Appellate term. The appellate term shall review questions of law

and questions of fact.