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SUPREME COURT PROPERLY REFUSED TO CONSIDER THEORY OF LIABILITY RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department noted that Supreme Court properly refused to consider a new theory raised for the first time in opposition to a summary judgment motion. Plaintiff alleged she slipped on a piece of trash on stairs. In opposition to defendants’ motion for summary judgment code violations and the absence of a handrail were alleged:

On their motion, the defendants established their prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law by establishing that they did not create or have actual or constructive notice of the alleged dangerous condition … . In opposition, the plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact in this regard.

A court should not consider the merits of a new theory of recovery, raised for the first time in opposition to a motion for summary judgment, that was not pleaded in the complaint … . As such, the Supreme Court did not err in declining to consider the plaintiff’s new theory of recovery, raised for the first time in opposition to the defendants’ motion, based on alleged building code violations related to the lack of a handrail on the subject staircase, since this theory was not pleaded in her amended complaint or set forth in her bill of particulars. Mazurek v Schoppmann, 2018 NY Slip Op 01601, Second Dept 3-14-18

NEGLIGENCE (SLIP AND FALL, SUPREME COURT PROPERLY REFUSED TO CONSIDER THEORY OF LIABILITY RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT))/SLIP AND FALL (SUPREME COURT PROPERLY REFUSED TO CONSIDER THEORY OF LIABILITY RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT))/CIVIL PROCEDURE (SUMMARY JUDGMENT, UPREME COURT PROPERLY REFUSED TO CONSIDER THEORY OF LIABILITY RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT))/SUMMARY JUDGMENT (SUPREME COURT PROPERLY REFUSED TO CONSIDER THEORY OF LIABILITY RAISED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ SUMMARY JUDGMENT MOTION IN THIS SLIP AND FALL CASE (SECOND DEPT))

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