Opinion
Submitted November 8, 2000.
December 6, 2000.
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rappaport, J.), dated February 29, 2000, as conditionally granted the plaintiff's motion pursuant to CPLR 3126 to strike his answer unless he provided a photograph of himself within 30 days, and denied his cross motion to stay enforcement of a prior order of the same court, dated November 17, 1999, directing him to produce a photograph of himself, pending an appeal therefrom.
Norman Volk Associates, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Michael I. Josephs of counsel), for appellant.
Ross Legan Rosenberg Zelen Flaks, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Michael Flaks of counsel), for respondent.
Before: CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, J.P., THOMAS R. SULLIVAN, GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, ROBERT W. SCHMIDT, JJ.
DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed, with costs.
A litigant may not raise an issue on a subsequent appeal which was raised, or could have been raised, in an earlier appeal that was dismissed for lack of prosecution (see, Bray v. Cox, 38 N.Y.2d 350). Here, the defendant appealed from a prior order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated November 17, 1999, which directed him to produce a photograph of himself. That appeal (Appellate Division Docket No. 1999-11790) was dismissed by decision and order of this court dated September 15, 2000, for failure to prosecute. The dismissal for lack of prosecution bars the instant appeal, which raises issues that could have been raised on the prior appeal (see, Rubeo v. National Grange Mut. Ins. Co., 93 N.Y.2d 750; Bray v. Cox, supra).