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Doe v. Archdiocese of N.Y.

Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Nov 9, 2023
221 A.D.3d 422 (N.Y. App. Div. 2023)

Opinion

983 Index No. 950297/20 Case No. 2023–01428

11-09-2023

Ark265 DOE, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK et al., Defendants. Conventual Franciscans also known as Friars Minor Conventual etc., Defendant-Appellant.

Harrington, Ocko & Monk, LLP, White Plains (Allison J. Sanders of counsel), for appellant. Jeff Anderson & Associates, P.A., New York (Nahid A. Shaikh of counsel), for respondent.


Harrington, Ocko & Monk, LLP, White Plains (Allison J. Sanders of counsel), for appellant.

Jeff Anderson & Associates, P.A., New York (Nahid A. Shaikh of counsel), for respondent.

Webber, J.P., Friedman, Gonza´lez, Kennedy, O'Neill Levy, JJ.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alexander M. Tisch, J.), entered October 3, 2022, which denied so much of defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint of Ark 265 Doe (Doe 265) as untimely and/or dismissal of Doe 265's causes of action as to negligent training, supervision, and retention, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff's claims against the appealing defendant (defendant) were properly revived under CPLR 214–g. Even though the alleged sexual abuse occurred outside of New York, plaintiff was a New York resident at the time the action accrued, and defendant is also a New York resident (see Samuel W. v. United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, 219 A.D.3d 421, 194 N.Y.S.3d 25 [1st Dept. 2023] ). The court also properly denied the motion to dismiss plaintiff's claims of negligent hiring, supervision, and retention. While defendant argues that plaintiff fails to allege specific facts that it had notice of the priest's criminal proclivities, at this pre-answer stage of the litigation, such information is in its the sole possession and control. Therefore, dismissal of these causes of action was properly denied on this ground as "facts essential to justify opposition may exist but cannot then be stated" (see G.T. v. Roman Cath. Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, 211 A.D.3d 413, 180 N.Y.S.3d 75 [1st Dept. 2022] ; CPLR 3211[d] ).


Summaries of

Doe v. Archdiocese of N.Y.

Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Nov 9, 2023
221 A.D.3d 422 (N.Y. App. Div. 2023)
Case details for

Doe v. Archdiocese of N.Y.

Case Details

Full title:ARK265 Doe, Plaintiff- Respondent, v. Archdiocese of New York et al.…

Court:Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Nov 9, 2023

Citations

221 A.D.3d 422 (N.Y. App. Div. 2023)
2023 N.Y. Slip Op. 5654
199 N.Y.S.3d 473

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