Country Pointe at Dix Hills Home Owners Ass'n v. Beechwood Organization

80 A.D.3d 643, 915 N.Y.S.2d 117
CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
DecidedJanuary 18, 2011
StatusPublished
Cited by9 cases

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Bluebook
Country Pointe at Dix Hills Home Owners Ass'n v. Beechwood Organization, 80 A.D.3d 643, 915 N.Y.S.2d 117 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2011).

Opinion

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract and for a judgment declaring, among other things, (a) that the membership and club access practices of a golf and country club owned by the defendant Greens Golf Club, LLC, unlawfully discriminate against owners of homes at Country Pointe at Dix Hills and are invalid to that extent, (b) that the membership and club access practices of the golf and country club violate the rights secured to those homeowners, their family members, and residents of those homes pursuant to the [644]*644governing documents of the plaintiff Country Pointe at Dix Hills Home Owners Association, Inc., the contracts between those homeowners and the sponsor of Country Pointe at Dix Hills, and New York law, (c) that the golf and country club may not be owned by the defendant Greens Golf Club, LLC, and (d) that each individual homeowner at Country Pointe at Dix Hills is entitled to opt out of and back into his or her mandatory social membership in the subject golf and country club, the plaintiff appeals (1), as limited by its notice of appeal and brief, from stated portions of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Emerson, J.), dated September 4, 2008, which, inter alia, granted those branches of the motion of the defendants Beechwood Carmen Building Corp., Michael Dubb, Leslie A. Lerner, Carol Bosco, Richard Rosenberg, Ted Jung, and Michael Leeds pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1) and (7) which were to dismiss so much of the amended verified complaint as alleged that those defendants breached the offering plan for the Country Pointe at Dix Hills development by failing to deem the children of homeowners at Country Pointe at Dix Hills to be members of the golf and country club and failing to construct a pool and clubhouse on Lot 73 at the Country Pointe at Dix Hills development, (2), as limited by its notice of appeal and brief, from so much of a second order of the same court, also dated September 4, 2008, as granted those branches of the motion of the defendants Alvin Benjamin, Benjamin Development Co., Inc., and Benjamin Millennium Group, LLC, which were for summary judgment dismissing the eighth, tenth, and eleventh causes of action insofar as asserted against those defendants, and declaring that the membership and club access, practices of the golf and country club do not unlawfully discriminate against owners of homes at Country Pointe at Dix Hills and are valid, that the membership and club access practices of the golf and country club do not violate the rights secured to those homeowners, their family members, and residents of those homes pursuant to the governing documents of the plaintiff Country Pointe at Dix Hills Home Owners Association, Inc., the contracts between those homeowners and the sponsor of Country Pointe at Dix Hills, and New York law, that the golf and country club may be owned by the defendant Greens Golf Club, LLC, and that each individual homeowner at Country Pointe at Dix Hills is not entitled to opt out of and back into his or her mandatory social membership in the subject golf and country club, (3), as limited by its notice of appeal and brief, from so much of a third order of the same court, also dated September 4, 2008, as granted those branches of the motion of the defendants S.B.J. Associates, LLC, Greens at Half Hollow, LLC, Jobeo Realty and [645]*645Development Co., Inc., Greens Golf Club, LLC, KJY LLC, Steve Kaplan, Neal S. Kaplan, Lee Kaplan, and Sherry Stolzenberg, which were for summary judgment dismissing the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, and fourteenth causes of action insofar as asserted against those defendants and declaring that the membership and club access practices of the golf and country club do not unlawfully discriminate against owners of homes at Country Pointe at Dix Hills and are valid, that the membership and club access practices of the golf and country club do not violate the rights secured to those homeowners, their family members, and residents of those homes pursuant to the governing documents of the plaintiff Country Pointe at Dix Hills Home Owners Association, Inc., the contracts between those homeowners and the sponsor of Country Pointe at Dix Hills, and New York law, that the golf and country club may be owned by the defendant Greens Golf Club, LLC, and that each individual homeowner at Country Pointe at Dix Hills is not entitled to opt out of and back into his or her mandatory social membership in the subject golf and country club (4), as limited by its notice of appeal and brief, from so much of an order of the same court dated August 4, 2009, as denied that branch of its motion which was for leave to renew its opposition to those branches of the motion of the defendants Alvin Benjamin, Benjamin Development Co., Inc., and Benjamin Millennium Group, LLC, which were for summary judgment dismissing the eighth, tenth, and eleventh causes of action insofar as asserted against those defendants and declaring that the membership and club access practices of the golf and country club do not unlawfully discriminate against owners of homes at Country Pointe at Dix Hills and are valid, that the membership and club access practices of the golf and country club do not violate the rights secured to those homeowners, their family members, and residents of those homes pursuant to the governing documents of the plaintiff Country Pointe at Dix Hills Home Owners Association, Inc., the contracts between those homeowners and the sponsor of Country Pointe at Dix Hills, and New York law, that the golf and country club may be owned by the defendant Greens Golf Club, LLC, and that each individual homeowner at Country Pointe at Dix Hills is not entitled to opt out of and back into his or her mandatory social membership in the subject golf and country club, (5), as limited by its notice of appeal and brief, from so much of a second order of the same court, also dated August 4, 2009, as denied that branch of its motion which was for leave to renew its opposition to those branches of the motion by the defendants S.B.J. Associates, LLC, Greens at Half Hollow, LLC, Jobeo Realty and [646]*646Development Co., Inc., Greens Golf Club, LLC, KJV¡ LLC, Steve Kaplan, Neal S. Kaplan, Lee Kaplan, and Sherry Stolzenberg, which were for summary judgment dismissing the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, and fourteenth causes of action insofar as asserted against the defendants S.B.J.

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