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THERE CAN BE NO REPUDIATION WHERE THERE HAS BEEN A BREACH OF CONTRACT, TWO JUSTICE DISSENT (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, over a two-justice dissent, determined plaintiff in this landlord-tenant dispute could not seek separate redress on a theory of repudiation for the breach of contract cause of action. The decision is fact-specific and cannot be fairly summarized here:

… [B]ecause a party cannot repudiate a contract it has already breached, if the landlord is found to have breached the lease in 2015, there can be no repudiation in 2021 … . * * *

From the dissent:

A party “cannot simultaneously pursue a breach of contract claim and an anticipatory breach claim premised on the same underlying conduct” … . However, where an obligation is ongoing or serial in nature, a subsequent material breach can support a claim on a theory of repudiation notwithstanding earlier claims for partial breach … . Audthan LLC v Nick & Duke, LLC, 2022 NY Slip Op 06880, First Dept 12-6-22

Practice Point: The majority held plaintiff could not seek redress on a theory of repudiation where there had been a breach of contract. There was a two-justice dissent.

 

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