Miceli v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
| Decision Date | 21 October 2004 |
| Citation | 786 N.Y.S.2d 379,819 N.E.2d 995,3 N.Y.3d 725 |
| Parties | MARY MICELI, Respondent, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant. |
| Court | New York Court of Appeals Court of Appeals |
Rivkin Radler LLP, Uniondale (Stuart M. Bodoff, Evan H. Krinick and Cheryl F. Korman of counsel), and Hagelin & Bischof, LLC, for appellant.
Barth, Sullivan & Behr, LLP, Buffalo (Laurence D. Behr of counsel), for respondent.
The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs, and plaintiff's motion for summary judgment denied.
Barely five months ago, in Brill v City of New York (2 N.Y.3d 648 [2004]), this Court reversed an award of summary judgment for defendant, without considering its merit, on the ground that the motion, made more than 120 days after note of issue was filed, failed to comply with the statutory requirement that "good cause" be shown for the late filing. We determined that, if the merit of the motion itself constituted good cause, the statutory deadline would be circumvented and the practice of delaying such motions until the eve of trial encouraged. As the Legislature clearly specified, summary judgment motions should be timely made, or good cause shown.
As we made clear in Brill, and underscore here, statutory time frames — like court-ordered time frames (see Kihl v Pfeffer, 94 NY2d 118 [1999]
) — are not options, they are requirements, to be taken seriously by the parties. Too many pages of the Reports, and hours of the courts, are taken up with deadlines that are simply ignored.
Plaintiff does not dispute that her motion for summary judgment was made more than 120 days after note of issue was filed, and offers no excuse for her failure to comply with CPLR 3212 (a), arguing only that her motion is meritorious. This was precisely defendant's position before us in Brill. To countenance plaintiff's position here would require us to overturn our own recent precedent. This we refuse to do, and we therefore reverse the order of the Appellate Division awarding summary judgment to plaintiff, without considering the merit of the motion.
Order reversed, etc.
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