Joseph v. Gmac Leasing Corporation, 2006-11031.
Decision Date | 23 October 2007 |
Docket Number | 2006-11031. |
Citation | 2007 NY Slip Op 08039,843 N.Y.S.2d 691,44 A.D.3d 905 |
Parties | ERNEST JOSEPH, Appellant, v. GMAC LEASING CORPORATION et al., Respondents. |
Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
To vacate the order dated March 29, 2005, entered upon the plaintiff's default in opposing the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, the plaintiff was required to demonstrate both a reasonable excuse for the default and a meritorious opposition to the motion for summary judgment (see Rockland Tr. Mix, Inc. v Rockland Enters., Inc., 28 AD3d 630 [2006]; Henry v Kuveke, 9 AD3d 476, 479 [2004]; Parker v City of New York, 272 AD2d 310 [2000]). Although the court may, in its discretion, accept law office failure as a reasonable excuse (see CPLR 2005; Putney v Pearlman, 203 AD2d 333 [1994]), "`a pattern of willful default and neglect' should not be excused" (Roussodimou v Zafiriadis, 238 AD2d 568, 569 [1997], quoting Gannon v Johnson Scale Co., 189 AD2d 1052, 1052 [1993]). Here, the plaintiff's failure to timely comply with a conditional so-ordered stipulation dated September 22, 2004, and to oppose the defendants' motion for summary judgment, and his further one-year delay in moving to vacate the order dated March 29, 2005, constituted a pattern of willful default and neglect that cannot be excused (see Glanville v Lets Care Again Daycare, Inc., 40 AD3d 580, 581 [2007]; Amato v Fast Repair, Inc., 15 AD3d 429 [2005]; Santiago v New York City Health & Hosps. Corp., 10 AD3d 393, 394 [2004]). Accordingly, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the plaintiff's motion to vacate the order dated March 29, 2005, entered upon his default.
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