Richards v. RP Stellar Riverton, LLC
| Decision Date | 24 February 2016 |
| Citation | 25 N.Y.S.3d 346,136 A.D.3d 1011 |
| Parties | Diane RICHARDS, respondent, v. RP STELLAR RIVERTON, LLC, et al., appellants, et al., defendant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
136 A.D.3d 1011
25 N.Y.S.3d 346
Diane RICHARDS, respondent,
v.
RP STELLAR RIVERTON, LLC, et al., appellants, et al., defendant.
Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
Feb. 24, 2016.
Baker Greenspan & Bernstein, Bellmore, N.Y. (Robert L. Bernstein, Jr., of counsel), for appellants.
Held, Held & Held (Pollack, Pollack, Isaac & De Cicco, LLP, New York, N.Y. [Brian J. Isaac and Michael H. Zhu ], of counsel), for respondent.
RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P., L. PRISCILLA HALL, SHERI S. ROMAN, and JOSEPH J. MALTESE, JJ.
In an action to recover damages for personal injures, the defendants RP Stellar Riverton, LLC, and Stellar Management, LLC, appeal, as limited by their brief, from (1) so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Schneier, J.), dated November 24, 2014, as granted the plaintiff's motion, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3126 to strike their answer to the extent of precluding them from offering any evidence on the issue of liability at the trial of this matter unless they provided certain discovery by a specified date, and (2) so much of an order of the same court dated March 26, 2015, as denied their motion to vacate the note of issue.
ORDERED that the orders are affirmed insofar as appealed from, with one bill of costs.
Generally, the nature and degree of a penalty to be imposed on a motion pursuant to CPLR 3126 is left to the discretion of the Supreme Court (see
Krause v. Lobacz, 131 A.D.3d 1128, 1128–1129, 16 N.Y.S.3d 601 ; see also Kanic Realty Assoc., Inc. v. Suffolk County Water Auth., 130 A.D.3d 876, 877, 14 N.Y.S.3d 138 ; Crystal Clear Dev., LLC v. Devon Architects of N.Y., P.C., 127 A.D.3d 911, 913, 7 N.Y.S.3d 361 ). "To invoke the drastic remedy of preclusion, the Supreme Court must determine that the offending party's lack of cooperation with disclosure was willful, deliberate,...
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