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LAW OFFICE FAILURE EXCUSE INSUFFICIENT, MOTION TO VACATE DISCONTINUANCE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the law office failure excuse was insufficient to warrant vacating the order of discontinuance:

While courts have discretionary power to relieve a party from a judgment or order for sufficient reason and in the interest of substantial justice… , “[a] court’s inherent power to exercise control over its judgments is not plenary, and should be resorted to only to relieve a party from judgments taken through [fraud,] mistake, inadvertence, surprise or excusable neglect” … .

Here, the plaintiff asserted that the action was erroneously discontinued by prior counsel due to confusion generated by an impending substitution of counsel. “Where a party asserts law office failure, it must provide a detailed and credible explanation of the default'”… , and conclusory and unsubstantiated allegations of law office failure are insufficient … . Contrary to the plaintiff’s contention, the uncorroborated representation by its current counsel that the action was erroneously discontinued by prior counsel did not constitute a detailed and credible explanation warranting vacatur of the order of discontinuance and restoration of the action … . Accordingly, the Supreme Court should have denied the plaintiff’s motion to vacate the order of discontinuance and to restore the action to the active calendar. IndyMac Bank, FSB v Izzo, 2018 NY Slip Op 08014, Second Dept 11-21-18

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