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IN A HYBRID PROCEEDING SEEKING REVIEW UNDER CPLR ARTICLE 78 AND SEEKING A DECLARATORY JUDGMENT AND DAMAGES, A MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT MUST BE MADE FOR BOTH; HERE THERE WAS NO MOTION TO DISMISS THE DECLARATORY JUDGMENT AND DAMAGES CAUSES OF ACTION; MATTER REMITTED (SECOND DEPT). ​

The Second Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, determined the declaratory judgment causes action should not have been dismissed because the motion for summary judgment did not seek that relief. Summary judgment on the CPLR Article 78 causes of action was properly granted, however:

“In a hybrid proceeding and action, separate procedural rules apply to those causes of action which are asserted pursuant to CPLR article 78, on the one hand, and those which seek to recover damages and declaratory relief, on the other hand” … . “The Supreme Court may not employ the summary procedure applicable to a CPLR article 78 cause of action to dispose of causes of action to recover damages or seeking a declaratory judgment” … . “Thus, where no party makes a request for a summary determination of the causes of action which seek to recover damages or declaratory relief, it is error for the Supreme Court to summarily dispose of those causes of action” … .

Here, since no party made such a motion, the Supreme Court erred in summarily disposing of the petitioner/plaintiff’s third through eighth causes of action. Accordingly, we remit the matter to the Supreme Court … for further proceedings on those causes of action … . Matter of Kelly v Farmingdale State Coll., State Univ. of N.Y., 2023 NY Slip Op 01895, Second Dept 4-12-23

Practice Point: In a hybrid Article 78 and declaratory judgment/damages action, a motion for summary judgment must be made for both. Here the motion only concerned the Article 78 causes of action so the court should not have summarily disposed of the declaratory judgment/damages causes of action.

 

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