Opinion
November 23, 1999
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Douglas McKeon, J.), entered July 21, 1998, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the brief, granted the motion of defendant Mystic Transportation Inc. (Mystic) to preclude plaintiff, pursuant to CPLR 3126(2), from offering or relying on photographs at trial to prove negligence on the part of Mystic or from introducing evidence as to any claim for special damages against Mystic, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Jeffrey E. Litman, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Adam B. Rosen, for Defendant-Respondent.
SULLIVAN, J.P., WALLACH, RUBIN, SAXE, FRIEDMAN, JJ.
Plaintiff's numerous and unexplained failures to comply with longstanding and still outstanding discovery obligations justify the inference that her noncompliance with discovery has been willful and contumacious (see, Cano v. BLF Realty Holding Corp., 243 A.D.2d 390; Glasburgh v. Port Auth. of New York and New Jersey, 193 A.D.2d 441). Accordingly, the IAS court properly precluded plaintiff, pursuant to CPLR 3126(2), from introducing or from relying upon the aforementioned evidence in her case against Mystic.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.