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Trial Court Should Not Have Precluded Expert Testimony Based Upon Failure to Make Timely Disclosures— Rather, the Trial Should Have Been Adjourned

Noting that the appellate court has the power to make its own discretionary determinations about discovery and CPLR article 31 matters, even in the absence of the abuse of discretion by the trial judge, the Fourth Department, over a two justice dissent, found that the trial judge should not have granted the defendants’ motion to preclude testimony by plaintiffs’ experts based upon the failure to make timely disclosures:

“[W]e have repeatedly recognized that ‘[a] trial court has broad discretion in supervising the discovery process, and its determinations will not be disturbed absent an abuse of that discretion’ . . . We have also repeatedly noted, however, ‘that, where discretionary determinations concerning discovery and CPLR article 31 are at issue, [we] “[are] vested with the same power and discretion as [Supreme Court, and thus we] may also substitute [our] own discretion even in the absence of abuse” ’ ” … . Under the circumstances of this case, we substitute our discretion for that of Supreme Court, and we conclude that the court should have adjourned the trial rather than granting defendants’ motion, thereby precluding the subject expert testimony and striking the subject expert disclosures. Smalley … v Harley-Davidson Motor Company Inc…, 372, 4th Dept 3-28-14

 

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