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PARTY MOVING TO PRECLUDE THE OTHER PARTY FROM PRESENTING EVIDENCE BASED UPON VIOLATIONS OF DISCOVERY ORDERS HAS THE BURDEN OF PROVING WILLFUL OR CONTUMACIOUS CONDUCT, BURDEN NOT MET HERE (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant’s motion to preclude the plaintiff from presenting evidence at trial should not have been granted. Plaintiff had failed to provide discovery and failed to appear for her court ordered deposition three times. A so-ordered stipulation was entered requiring plaintiff to be deposed on or before March 16, 2015, at a time and place to be agreed upon. Defendant moved to preclude when plaintiff did not appear on March 16, 2015. The court noted that no date for the deposition had been agreed to and therefore preclusion was not warranted:

When a litigant fails to comply with the terms of a conditional order of preclusion, the terms of that order become absolute … . However, the burden of establishing noncompliance rests with the party seeking preclusion … . Because the remedy of preclusion is the functional equivalent of striking a party’s pleading… , it may not be granted where the party can demonstrate a justifiable excuse and a potentially meritorious cause of action or defense … .

ere, the so-ordered stipulation did not set a time, date, or place for the plaintiff’s deposition, instead stating merely that the plaintiff’s deposition was to be held “on or before” March 16, 2015, “at a time and location to be agreed upon.” In light of this, the defendants’ minimal assertion that the plaintiff failed to appear, which relied on the hearsay assertion of an unnamed employee of defense counsel, was insufficient to demonstrate that the plaintiff willfully and contumaciously violated the so-ordered stipulation … . Similarly, the defendants did not allege in their motion that the plaintiff had failed to provide the outstanding written discovery that was included in the so-ordered stipulation. Therefore, since the defendants failed to demonstrate that the plaintiff knew when and where to appear for her deposition, there was no evidence of ongoing willful or contumacious conduct … . Cannon v 111 Fulton St. Condominium, Inc., 2018 NY Slip Op 04523, Second Dept 6-20-18

​CIVIL PROCEDURE (PRECLUDE, MOTION TO, PARTY MOVING TO PRECLUDE THE OTHER PARTY FROM PRESENTING EVIDENCE BASED UPON VIOLATIONS OF DISCOVERY ORDERS HAS THE BURDEN OF PROVING WILLFUL OR CONTUMACIOUS CONDUCT, BURDEN NOT MET HERE (SECOND DEPT))/DISCOVERY (PRECLUDE, MOTION TO, PARTY MOVING TO PRECLUDE THE OTHER PARTY FROM PRESENTING EVIDENCE BASED UPON VIOLATIONS OF DISCOVERY ORDERS HAS THE BURDEN OF PROVING WILLFUL OR CONTUMACIOUS CONDUCT, BURDEN NOT MET HERE (SECOND DEPT))/PRECLUDE, MOTION TO (PARTY MOVING TO PRECLUDE THE OTHER PARTY FROM PRESENTING EVIDENCE BASED UPON VIOLATIONS OF DISCOVERY ORDERS HAS THE BURDEN OF PROVING WILLFUL OR CONTUMACIOUS CONDUCT, BURDEN NOT MET HERE (SECOND DEPT))/CPLR 3126  (PRECLUDE, MOTION TO, PARTY MOVING TO PRECLUDE THE OTHER PARTY FROM PRESENTING EVIDENCE BASED UPON VIOLATIONS OF DISCOVERY ORDERS HAS THE BURDEN OF PROVING WILLFUL OR CONTUMACIOUS CONDUCT, BURDEN NOT MET HERE (SECOND DEPT))/WILLFUL OR CONTUMACIOUS CONDUCT  (PRECLUDE, MOTION TO, PARTY MOVING TO PRECLUDE THE OTHER PARTY FROM PRESENTING EVIDENCE BASED UPON VIOLATIONS OF DISCOVERY ORDERS HAS THE BURDEN OF PROVING WILLFUL OR CONTUMACIOUS CONDUCT, BURDEN NOT MET HERE (SECOND DEPT))

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