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SUPREME COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE GRANTED PLAINTIFF PERMISSION TO SERVE AN AMENDED COMPLAINT AND SIMULTANEOUSLY AWARDED PLAINTIFF SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON SEVERAL CAUSES OF ACTION, THE AMENDED COMPLAINT SUPERSEDES THE ORIGINAL AND MUST BE ANSWERED BEFORE FURTHER PROCEEDINGS (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, determined Supreme Court should not have simultaneously granted plaintiff permission to amend the complaint and granted summary judgment on several causes of action. An amended complaint supersedes the original complaint and should be answered before any further proceedings:

… Supreme Court should not have awarded the plaintiff summary judgment on the issue of liability on the first, third, and fourth causes of action in the amended complaint, while simultaneously allowing the plaintiff to serve the amended complaint … . “When an amended complaint has been served, it supersedes the original complaint and becomes the only complaint in the case” … . “Since an amended complaint supplants the original complaint, it would unduly prejudice a defendant if it were bound by an original answer when the original complaint has no legal effect” … . As a result, “an amended complaint should ordinarily be followed by an answer” … . Here, the court should not have awarded the plaintiff summary judgment on the issue of liability on the causes of action in the amended complaint before the defendant had answered the amended complaint … . R&G Brenner Income Tax Consultants v Gilmartin, 2018 NY Slip Op 07470, Second Dept 11-7-18

CIVIL PROCEDURE (SUPREME COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE GRANTED PLAINTIFF PERMISSION TO SERVE AN AMENDED COMPLAINT AND SIMULTANEOUSLY AWARDED PLAINTIFF SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON SEVERAL CAUSES OF ACTION, THE AMENDED COMPLAINT SUPERSEDES THE ORIGINAL AND MUST BE ANSWERED BEFORE FURTHER PROCEEDINGS (SECOND DEPT))/AMENDED COMPLAINT (SUPREME COURT SHOULD NOT HAVE GRANTED PLAINTIFF PERMISSION TO SERVE AN AMENDED COMPLAINT AND SIMULTANEOUSLY AWARDED PLAINTIFF SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON SEVERAL CAUSES OF ACTION, THE AMENDED COMPLAINT SUPERSEDES THE ORIGINAL AND MUST BE ANSWERED BEFORE FURTHER PROCEEDINGS (SECOND DEPT))

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