Grecia v. American Arbitration Assoc

Full title: IN THE MATTER OF PAULINE D. GRECIA, appellant, v. AMERICAN ARBITRATION…

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

Date published: Jun 23, 2003

306 A.D.2d 479 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)

761 N.Y.S.2d 512

Opinion

2002-07393

Submitted June 3, 2003.

June 23, 2003.

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 75 to stay arbitration, the petitioner appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Jackson, J.), dated June 21, 2002, as denied that branch of her motion which was for additional background information concerning the arbitrator appointed by the American Arbitration Association.

Paul R. Pops, New York, N.Y. (Seymour I. Yanofsky of counsel), for appellant.

Layton Brooks Hecht, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Theodore L. Hecht of counsel), for respondent-respondent.

Before: DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., SONDRA MILLER, GLORIA GOLDSTEIN, HOWARD MILLER, JJ.

DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order and judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The petitioner's request for additional background information concerning the arbitrator appointed by the American Arbitration Association (hereinafter the AAA) to hear her dispute was properly denied where the AAA furnished a copy of the arbitrator's resume to the petitioner (see AAA SUM Rules, Rule 9).

RITTER, J.P., S. MILLER, GOLDSTEIN and H. MILLER, JJ., concur.