
    In the Matter of the Application of Michael Calandra et al., Appellants, v Harold Rothwax, as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, et al., Respondents.
    Submitted June 3, 1985;
    decided July 9, 1985
   Motion for leave to appeal denied. The Court of Appeals restates the rule that denial of a motion for leave to appeal is not equivalent to an affirmance and has no precedential value (see, e.g., Matter of Marchant v Mead-Morrison Mfg. Co., 252 NY 284, 297-298 [Cardozo, Ch. J.]; Matter of Sean X., 63 NY2d 943).  