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MOTION TO PURGE THE CONTEMPT ORDER REGARDING THE REMOVAL OF SOLID WASTE THAT HAD BEEN DUMPED ON A FIELD BY DEFENDANTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED AND THE INCARCERATED DEFENDANT SHOULD BE RELEASED (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendants’ motion to purge the contempt order should have been granted and one of the defendants, Cascino, who had been incarcerated for more than a year to force compliance with the underlying order, should be released. The court had ordered defendants to remove solid waste that had been dumped by then on a field. Much of the material had been removed but questions of fact remained whether all of it had been removed:

… [A] question of fact remains as to whether defendants completed the required remediation. This impasse brings us back to the fundamental problem that the disputed material looks like regular topsoil to the human eye. Despite ongoing removal efforts and Supreme Court having concluded multiple hearings throughout 2016 and 2017 as to the remediation performed, the difficulty of identifying the precise location of any remaining material has left the parties at a continuing impasse.

Given these circumstances, we conclude that to continue Cascino’s incarceration any further would serve no viable purpose and cannot be sustained. We are satisfied that the record establishes a significant effort on defendants’ part to purge the contempt, while recognizing that there remains some dispute as to whether all the disputed material has been removed. That said, until such time as a definitive showing has been made that the disputed material actually remains and precisely where, it would be improvident to continue Cascino’s incarceration. For these reasons, we conclude that the order must be reversed and defendants’ motion to purge the contempt granted. Town of Copake v 13 Lackawanna Props., LLC, 2019 NY Slip Op 01271, Third Dept 2-21-19

 

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