Gordian-Kenney v. N.Y.S. Div. of Human Rights

Full title: MIRIAM GORDIAN-KENNEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. NEW YORK STATE DIVISION OF…

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Dec 4, 2003

2 A.D.3d 165 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)

767 N.Y.S.2d 616

Opinion

2398N.

December 4, 2003.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louis York, J.), entered July 24, 2002, which denied with prejudice petitioner's motion to renew a prior motion to vacate a default judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Allan G. Chambers, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Thelma Joy B. Rodriguez, Sandra Libeson Weingarten, for Respondents-Respondents.

Before: Tom, J.P., Andrias, Saxe, Ellerin, JJ.

Petitioner not only defaulted repeatedly, but failed to heed the court's instructions on what to include in requests for vacatur. She has failed to meet her burden of showing a reasonable excuse for default and a meritorious cause of action ( Mitrany v. American Title Ins. Co., 238 A.D.2d 179).

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.