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CONTINUING TORT DOCTRINE APPLIED TO A COUNTERCLAIM FOR A DELIBERATE CAMPAIGN OF HARASSMENT SPANNING 13 YEARS.

The Second Department, in this assault and battery action, determined defendant’s counterclaim alleging a deliberate campaign of harassment spanning 13 years was not subject to the one-year statute of limitations because the continuing tort doctrine applied:

… [T]he Supreme Court properly concluded that so much of the defendant’s third counterclaim as was based on conduct occurring prior to September 29, 2013, was not barred by the one-year statute of limitations (see CPLR 215), and that it was instead governed by the continuing tort doctrine, which permits claims based on “wrongful conduct occurring more than one year prior to commencement of the action, so long as the final actionable event occurred within one year of the suit” … . The counterclaim was supported by factual allegations that the plaintiff engaged in a continuing and concerted campaign of harassment and intimidation of the defendant that progressed from, among other things, calling the defendant, his family, and guests ethnic and racial epithets and throwing items onto his property to eventually making threats of violence, making false criminal accusations, committing assault and battery against the defendant, and continuing to engage in threatening and intimidating conduct nearly two months after the physical confrontation that is the subject of the plaintiff’s complaint … . The final actionable event, allegedly occurring in November 2013, fell within one year of the defendant’s service of the verified answer with counterclaims … . Estreicher v Oner, 2017 NY Slip Op 01844, 2nd Dept 3-15-17

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