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THE MOTION TO STRIKE INFLAMMATORY ALLEGATIONS FROM THE COMPLAINT SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANTED; WHETHER EVIDENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ALLEGATIONS IS DISCOVERABLE OR ADMISSIBLE AT TRIAL IS NOT AFFECTED BY GRANTING THE MOTION TO STRIKE (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the motion to strike inflammatory allegations from the complaint should have been granted:

Plaintiff commenced this action against defendant asserting causes of action for defamation, defamation per se, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and gender-motivated violence under the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law (Administrative Code of NYC § 10-111 et seq.).

The court should have granted defendant’s motion to strike certain inflammatory factual allegations from the first amended complaint. The allegations at issue, which employed rhetoric or detailed defendant’s misconduct toward other women and his relationships with notorious third parties, were scandalous and prejudicial, and not necessary to establish any element of plaintiff’s causes of action (see CPLR 3024 [b] …). CPLR 3024 (b) motions do not judge whether matters will be discoverable or admissible at trial … . Ganieva v Black, 2023 NY Slip Op 02380, First Dept 5-4-23

Practice Point: Here the motion to strike inflammatory allegations from the complaint should have been granted. Granting such a motion has no effect on whether the related evidence is discoverable or admissible at trial.

 

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