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Simons v. New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jan 3, 2008
47 A.D.3d 416 (N.Y. App. Div. 2008)

Opinion

No. 2474.

January 3, 2008.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Werner Kornreich, J.), entered December 14, 2006, which granted defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the amended complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

David Simons, appellant pro se.

Winget, Spadafora Schwartzberg, LLP, New York (Matthew Tracy of counsel), for respondents.

Before: Andrias, J.P., Nardelli, Buckley and Catterson, JJ.


Plaintiff'S cause of action for fraud was defective inasmuch as he failed to specify the misrepresentations on which he relied to his detriment (CPLR 3016 [b]; see Modell's N.Y. v Noodle Ki-doodle, 242 AD2d 248, 249-250). Even assuming defendants made misrepresentations to plaintiff regarding the progress his son Cody was making in school, in light of the evidence in the school reports that Cody was struggling academically, plaintiff's reliance on such misrepresentations would not have been reasonable. The court also properly determined that plaintiff's damages, if any, were not a result of any alleged misrepresentation of defendants, but rather related to plaintiff's improper cause of action for educational malpractice, which the court had previously dismissed ( see generally Torres v Little Flower Children's Servs., 64 NY2d 119, cert denied 474 US 864).

We have considered plaintiff's remaining contentions and find them unavailing.


Summaries of

Simons v. New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jan 3, 2008
47 A.D.3d 416 (N.Y. App. Div. 2008)
Case details for

Simons v. New York

Case Details

Full title:DAVID SIMONS, Appellant, v. LYCEE FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK et al., Respondents

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

Date published: Jan 3, 2008

Citations

47 A.D.3d 416 (N.Y. App. Div. 2008)
2008 N.Y. Slip Op. 50
850 N.Y.S.2d 23

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