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FAILURE TO FILE PROOF OF SERVICE IS A CORRECTABLE DEFECT, PETITION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DENIED ON THAT GROUND.

The Second Department determined failure to file proof of service of a petition and notice of petition should not have resulted in the denial of the petition. The motion court raised the ground for denial itself. Rather than denying the petition, the motion court should have alerted the parties to the defect and allowed it to be cured:

“The failure to file proof of service is a procedural irregularity, not a jurisdictional defect, that may be cured by motion or sua sponte by the court in its discretion pursuant to CPLR 2004” … . Here, there is no dispute that the respondents were served with the notice of petition and petition, as they moved to dismiss on the ground that the petition failed to state a cause of action. At no time did they argue that the proceeding should be dismissed for failure to file proof of service. As such, the parties did not have an opportunity to address the purported failure to file proof of service, the ground upon which the Supreme Court relied in denying the petition and dismissing the proceeding, even though such defect is readily curable (see CPLR 2001, 2004). “The lack of notice and opportunity to be heard implicates the fundamental issue of fairness that is the cornerstone of due process” … . Therefore, the Supreme Court should have alerted the parties to the purported defect and afforded the appellant an opportunity to correct it, rather than denying the petition and dismissing the proceeding… . Matter of Meighan v Ponte, 2016 NY Slip Op 07653, 2nd Dept 11-16-16

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