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ALTHOUGH, ON A PRIOR APPEAL, THE APPEALS COURT FOUND THAT AN OFFER OF PROOF OF PRIOR ACCIDENTS WAS INADEQUATE, AT THE SUBSEQUENT TRIAL THE COURT SHOULD HAVE CONSIDERED THE PLAINTIFF’S OFFER OF EVIDENCE OF PRIOR ACCIDENTS, THE APPELLATE RULING WAS NOT THE LAW OF THE CASE (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the evidentiary ruling in a prior appeal was not the law of the case and plaintiff’s attempt to introduce the same type of evidence in the subsequent trial should have been considered on the merits:

This matter comes before us for a fourth time … . In our most recent decision, we affirmed that part of an order of Supreme Court which, after granting a mistrial, precluded plaintiff from offering evidence of prior accidents in a second trial … . Thereafter, plaintiff again moved to admit evidence of prior similar accidents or, in the alternative, for a hearing on the application. Supreme Court denied the motion, effectively concluding that our prior decision constitutes law of the case. Plaintiff now appeals.

We reverse. The underlying motion in limine speaks to an evidentiary ruling and the law of the case doctrine generally speaks to questions of law, not discretionary rulings of the court … . That said, we are mindful that “‘[a]n appellate court’s resolution of an issue on a prior appeal constitutes the law of the case and is binding on the Supreme Court, as well as on the appellate court . . . [and] operates to foreclose reexamination of [the] question absent a showing of subsequent evidence or change of law'”… .

Although defendants contend otherwise, our previous decision was not a definitive ruling as to whether the conditions underlying the prior accidents that plaintiff seeks to admit were substantially similar to the accident at issue. To the contrary, we simply determined that the limited offer of proof that plaintiff then made was inadequate … . As such, the subject motion should have been addressed on the merits … . O’Buckley v County of Chemung, 2018 NY Slip Op 05003, Third Dept 7-5-18

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