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Supreme Court Should Not Have Treated Pre-Answer Motion to Dismiss as Motion for Summary Judgment

The Third Department determined Supreme Court erred in treating respondents’ pre-answer motion to dismiss as a motion for summary judgment:

Generally, a summary judgment motion is premature prior to the service of an answer … .  However, a court may treat a pre-answer motion as one for summary judgment if it “give[s] prior notice to the parties or, through their submissions, the parties themselves . . . demonstrate an intent to ‘deliberately chart[] a summary judgment course'” … .  There is no indication in the record before us – nor do the parties assert – that Supreme Court provided any notice of its intention to treat the motion as one for summary judgment. Thus, the question before us distills to whether the parties charted a summary judgment course by laying bare their proof…. .  [P]etitioners clearly did not lay bare all of their proof … .  … Under these circumstances, Supreme Court erred in treating respondents’ motion as one for summary judgment.  Dashmaw v Town of Peru, 516581, 3rd Dept 11-27-13

 

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