Matter of Walker v. Sandberg & Sikorski Corp.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

Matter of Walker v. Sandberg & Sikorski Corp.

125 A.D.3d 480, 999 N.Y.S.2d 746

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York·Decided February 10, 2015·No. 14209N 114718/10·Published

Opinion

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara Jaffe, J.), entered July 12, 2013, which denied petitioners’ motion to compel respondents to more fully comply with an order, same court and Justice, entered May 27, 2011, granting petitioners’ motion for pre-action discovery, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Because petitioners already possess sufficient information to file a complaint asserting defamation, they are not entitled to further pre-action discovery under CPLR 3102 (c) (see Matter of Verdon v New York City Tr. Auth., 92 AD2d 465 [1st Dept 1983]). Concur — Sweeny, J.P., Renwick, Moskowitz, Feinman and Kapnick, JJ.

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Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara Jaffe, J.), entered July 12, 2013, which denied petitioners’ motion to compel respondents to more fully comply with an order, same court and Justice, entered May 27, 2011, granting petitioners’ motion for pre-action discovery, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Because petitioners already possess sufficient information to file a complaint asserting defamation, they are not entitled to further pre-action discovery under CPLR 3102 (c) (see Matter of Verdon v New York City Tr. Auth., 92 AD2d 465 [1st Dept 1983]). Concur — Sweeny, J.P., Renwick, Moskowitz, Feinman and Kapnick, JJ.

Matter of Walker v. Sandberg & Sikorski Corp., 125 A.D.3d 480, 999 N.Y.S.2d 746 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2015).

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