Caruso, Caruso & Branda v. Hirsch

60 A.D.3d 886, 874 N.Y.S.2d 918

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: March 24, 2009
• Status: Published

Opinion

In an action to recover unpaid legal fees, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Held, J.), dated April 10, 2008, which denied her motion pursuant to CPLR 4102 (e) for leave to serve and file a late demand for a jury trial.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defendant’s motion pursuant to CPLR 4102 (e) for leave to serve and file a late demand for a jury trial. A motion for such relief must be based upon a factual showing that the earlier waiver of that right was the result of either inadvertence or other excusable conduct indicating a lack of intention to waive such a right (see Fischer v RWSP Realty, LLC, 53 AD3d 595, 597 [2008]; Sumba v Sampaio, 44 AD3d 648 [2007]; Hyatte v G.B.W. Glenwood Dental Adm’rs, Inc., 8 AD3d 233 [2004]). The defendant failed to make such a factual showing (see Matter of Bosco, 141 AD2d 639 [1988]). Mastro, J.P., Fisher, Florio and Eng, JJ., concur.