Opinion
14904 Index No. 653587/19 Case No. 2020-04934
12-28-2021
FAC¸ADE TECHNOLOGY, LLC, etc., et al., Plaintiffs–Appellants, v. CNY CONSTRUCTION 701 LLC, et al., Defendants–Respondents, CNY Group LLC, et al., Defendants.
Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, New York (Jason A. Copley and Gary J. Repke, Jr. of counsel), for appellants. Dreifuss Bonacci & Parker, PC, New York (JoAnne M. Bonacci of counsel), for respondents.
Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, New York (Jason A. Copley and Gary J. Repke, Jr. of counsel), for appellants.
Dreifuss Bonacci & Parker, PC, New York (JoAnne M. Bonacci of counsel), for respondents.
Kern, J.P., Moulton, Mendez, Shulman, Higgitt, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barry R. Ostrager, J.), entered on or about November 18, 2020, which denied as untimely plaintiff's motion to maintain its seventh cause of action, to enforce a statutory trust, as a class action, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the matter remanded for further proceedings consistent herewith.
Plaintiff's motion for class certification should not have been denied as untimely because plaintiff demonstrated good cause under CPLR 2004 for its brief, nonprejudicial delay in moving (see Gerard v. Clermont York Assoc. LLC, 143 A.D.3d 478, 38 N.Y.S.3d 194 [1st Dept. 2016] ; Galdamez v. Biordi Constr. Corp., 50 A.D.3d 357, 855 N.Y.S.2d 104 [1st Dept. 2008] ). Accordingly, we remand the matter for consideration of the merits of the motion.