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Leiva v. Marietta Trucking Corp.

272 A.D.2d 209, 708 N.Y.S.2d 294, 2000 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5639
CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
DecidedMay 18, 2000
StatusPublished

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Leiva v. Marietta Trucking Corp., 272 A.D.2d 209, 708 N.Y.S.2d 294, 2000 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5639 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2000).

Opinion

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Martin Schoenfeld, J.), entered December 3, 1999, which, inter alia, granted plaintiff leave to amend his complaint to add a demand for punitive damages, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The motion court properly exercised its discretion in granting plaintiff leave to amend (see, Pchelka v Loomis-Root, Inc., 210 AD2d 889), since plaintiff’s proposed amendment was not “plainly lacking in merit” (Rahn v Carkner, 241 AD2d 585, 586). Defendants-appellants were not impermissibly prejudiced by the amendment, since they had not changed position materially or given up a right in reliance on the unamended complaint (see, U.S. Cablevision Corp. v Theodoreu, 192 AD2d 835, 837). This, moreover, is not a situation in which the party seeking leave to amend knowingly slept on his or her rights (cf., Balport Constr. Co. v New York Tel. Co., 134 AD2d 309, 312). Concur — Ellerin, J. P., Wallach, Saxe and Buckley, JJ.

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Balport Construction Co. v. New York Telephone Co.
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U.S. Cablevision Corp. v. Theodoreu
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Pchelka v. Loomis-Root, Inc.
210 A.D.2d 889 (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1994)
Rahn v. Carkner
241 A.D.2d 585 (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1997)

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