Kamanou–Goune v. Swiss Int'l Airlines
| Decision Date | 28 November 2012 |
| Citation | 954 N.Y.S.2d 227,2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 08100,100 A.D.3d 968 |
| Parties | Marie–Gisele KAMANOU–GOUNE, et al., appellants, v. SWISS INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES, respondent. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
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Marie–Gisele Kamanou–Goune and Sydney Couronne Djotita Goune, New Rochelle, N.Y., appellants pro se.
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, White Plains, N.Y. (Riyaz G. Bhimani of counsel), for respondent.
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P., RUTH C. BALKIN, JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, and CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, JJ.
In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract, the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Lefkowitz, J.), entered January 14, 2011, as denied that branch of their motion which was, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3124 to compel the defendant to comply with certain document production requests, and granted that branch of the defendant's cross motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3124 to compel them to respond to the defendant's demand for a bill of particulars and combined demands.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Pursuant to CPLR 3120, the plaintiffs requested that the defendantproduce certain documents. The defendant objected to these requests and provided written responses ( seeCPLR 3122); it did not produce any of the requested documents. The plaintiffs moved, inter alia, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3124 to compel the defendant to comply with their document production requests. Thereafter, the defendant complied with some of the requests by producing certain documents, but reasserted its objections to the plaintiffs' other requests and refused to produce the documents related to those requests. The defendant then cross-moved pursuant to CPLR 3124 to compel the plaintiffs to respond to its demand for a bill of particulars and combined demands, and pursuant to CPLR 3103 for a protective order with respect to the plaintiffs' requests for the production of certain documents.
The Supreme Court denied the aforementioned branch of the plaintiffs' motion on the ground that it was rendered “moot” when the defendant complied with some of the plaintiffs' document requests by producing certain documents. The Supreme Court also denied that branch of the defendant's cross motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3103 for a protective order on the ground that it had also been rendered “moot,” but granted that branch of the cross motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3124 to compel the plaintiffs to respond to its demand for a bill of particulars and combined demands. The plaintiffs appeal. We affirm the order insofar as appealed from, albeit, in part, on grounds different from those relied upon by the Supreme Court.
Contrary to the determination of the Supreme Court, that branch of the plaintiffs' motion which was, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3124 to compel the defendant to comply...
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