Opinion ID: 1388000
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Heading: Reviewability of the Summary Judgment Order

Text: The Warshawskys' notice of appeal, while referring to the grant of summary judgment, explicitly appeals only from the denial of their motion to reconsider. [2] SCR argues that we therefore have jurisdiction to review only that order, not the underlying grant of summary judgment. Our recent decision in  R Best Produce, Inc. v. DiSapio, 540 F.3d 115 (2d Cir. 2008), counsels otherwise. In R Best Produce, we decided that we had jurisdiction to review an underlying district court orderin that case denying a motion to vacate a default judgmentwhere the notice of appeal referred to an order denying reconsideration, but not the underlying order itself. We endorsed a straightforward approach to resolving the issue of which orders, not referred to in a notice of appeal, are reviewable, concluding that a notice of appeal from denial of a motion to reconsider, filed within ten days of the order or judgment sought to be considered, suffices to bring up for review the underlying order or judgment, at least where the motion renews arguments previously made. Id. at 121. The motion to reconsider in the instant case similarly renews arguments previously made, and, therefore, we may review the underlying order granting summary judgment.