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THE JUDGE DID NOT CONSIDER PLAINTIFF’S MOTION PAPERS TO THE EXTENT THE COURT-IMPOSED PAGE-LIMIT WAS EXCEEDED; REMITTED FOR A NEW DETERMINATION OF THE MOTIONS (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined that the judge’s refusal to read plaintiff’s motion papers to the extent the court-imposed page-limit was exceeded was unreasonable. Having accepted plaintiff’s papers, the court should have considered them in their entirety:

“It is appropriate for courts to set page or word limits on submissions, and to reject papers that fail to comply with those limits” … . However, “[i]t is not reasonable . . . for a court to accept papers that do not comply with the court’s page limitation and then refuse to read the noncompliant pages, denying, as a consequence, substantive relief that may be warranted” … . Having accepted the plaintiff’s papers, the Supreme Court should have considered the entirety of the plaintiff’s affirmation and memorandum of law submitted in support of the plaintiff’s opposition to the defendants’ motion and in support of the cross-motion. Accordingly, we remit the matter to the Supreme Court … for a new determination on the merits of the defendants’ motion and the plaintiff’s cross-motion. Weingarten v Kopelowitz, 2026 NY Slip Op 01816, Second Dept 3-25-26

Practice Point: If the court accepts motion papers which exceed the court-imposed page-limit, the court must consider the papers in their entirety.

 

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