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Civil Procedure, Municipal Law

INMATE-PETITIONER’S INITIAL PRO SE ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM REGARDING AN INCIDENT IN THE COUNTY JAIL BY SENDING THE PAPERS TO THE COURT CLERK, NOT THE COUNTY COURT, WAS A NULLITY, PETITIONER’S SECOND ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE AFTER THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAD RUN COULD NOT, THEREFORE, RELATE BACK TO THE INITIAL ATTEMPT (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department determined that the inmate-petitioner’s motion for leave to file a late notice of claim, based upon an incident in the county jail, could not relate back to petitioner’s first (pro se) attempt to file a late notice of claim. Petitioner’s first attempt was sent to the court clerk as opposed to the county clerk. The court clerk returned the papers and instructed the petitioner to send them to the county clerk. Nothing further was done by the petitioner until an attorney was assigned and the statute of limitations had passed. The relation-back doctrine could not be applied because the failure to file the original papers with the county clerk was a jurisdictional defect:

… [W]here an action to enforce a claim has not yet been commenced, a party seeking to make an application for leave to serve a late notice of claim should commence a special proceeding in the Supreme Court or the County Court in a county where the action may be properly brought to trial (see General Municipal Law § 50-e [7]…). A special proceeding is commenced by the filing of initiatory papers with the County Clerk in the county in which the special proceeding is brought or with any other person designated by the County Clerk to accept filing… . While the Supreme Court or the County Court may convert an improperly brought motion for leave to serve a late notice of claim into a special proceeding … , the failure to file the application with the appropriate clerk — the County Clerk — is a fatal defect that may not be overlooked or corrected by the court pursuant to CPLR 2001… . Indeed, the filing of initiatory papers with the Clerk of the Supreme and County Courts, rather than the County Clerk, “has been equated to a nonfiling and, thus, ‘a nonwaivable jurisdictional defect rendering the proceeding a nullity'” … . Matter of Dougherty v County of Greene, 2018 NY Slip Op 03192, Third Dept 5-3-18

​MUNICIPAL LAW (NOTICE OF CLAIM, INMATE-PETITIONER’S INITIAL PRO SE ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM REGARDING AN INCIDENT IN THE COUNTY JAIL BY SENDING THE PAPERS TO THE COURT CLERK, NOT THE COUNTY COURT, WAS A NULLITY, PETITIONER’S SECOND ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE AFTER THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAD RUN COULD NOT, THEREFORE, RELATE BACK TO THE INITIAL ATTEMPT (THIRD DEPT))/NOTICE OF CLAIM (MUNICIPAL LAW,  INMATE-PETITIONER’S INITIAL PRO SE ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM REGARDING AN INCIDENT IN THE COUNTY JAIL BY SENDING THE PAPERS TO THE COURT CLERK, NOT THE COUNTY COURT, WAS A NULLITY, PETITIONER’S SECOND ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE AFTER THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAD RUN COULD NOT, THEREFORE, RELATE BACK TO THE INITIAL ATTEMPT (THIRD DEPT))/CIVIL PROCEDURE (NOTICE OF CLAIM, RELATION BACK, INMATE-PETITIONER’S INITIAL PRO SE ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM REGARDING AN INCIDENT IN THE COUNTY JAIL BY SENDING THE PAPERS TO THE COURT CLERK, NOT THE COUNTY COURT, WAS A NULLITY, PETITIONER’S SECOND ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE AFTER THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAD RUN COULD NOT, THEREFORE, RELATE BACK TO THE INITIAL ATTEMPT (THIRD DEPT))/STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS (NOTICE OF CLAIM, INMATE-PETITIONER’S INITIAL PRO SE ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM REGARDING AN INCIDENT IN THE COUNTY JAIL BY SENDING THE PAPERS TO THE COURT CLERK, NOT THE COUNTY COURT, WAS A NULLITY, PETITIONER’S SECOND ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE AFTER THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAD RUN COULD NOT, THEREFORE, RELATE BACK TO THE INITIAL ATTEMPT (THIRD DEPT))/COUNTY CLERK (FILING LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM, INMATE-PETITIONER’S INITIAL PRO SE ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM REGARDING AN INCIDENT IN THE COUNTY JAIL BY SENDING THE PAPERS TO THE COURT CLERK, NOT THE COUNTY COURT, WAS A NULLITY, PETITIONER’S SECOND ATTEMPT TO FILE A LATE NOTICE AFTER THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAD RUN COULD NOT, THEREFORE, RELATE BACK TO THE INITIAL ATTEMPT (THIRD DEPT))

May 3, 2018
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