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WHEN A JUDGE MAKES A WRONG RULING WHICH CANNOT BE APPEALED BECAUSE IT WAS NOT PROMPTED BY A MOTION, A MOTION TO SET ASIDE THE ORDER PURSUANT TO CPLR 5015 IS AN APPROPRIATE REMEDY; THE DENIAL OF THE MOTION TO SET ASIDE CAN BE APPEALED, AS WAS SUCCESSFULLY DONE HERE (FIRST DEPT).

​The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined Supreme Court should not have dismissed the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3216 because no motion to dismiss had been made and plaintiff was not given any warning or an opportunity to respond. The court noted that when a judge makes a wrong ruling, here the dismissal of the complaint, the proper procedure is a motion to set aside the order pursuant to CPLR 5015. The motion to set aside should have been granted:

A trial court has inherent power, as well as statutory power under CPLR 5015, to set aside an order on appropriate grounds … . “Vacating the dismissal order is consistent with the public policy of this State to dispose of cases on their merits and upholds the principle that a trial court’s power to dismiss an action sua sponte should be used sparingly and only in extraordinary circumstances” … .

There were no extraordinary circumstances warranting the complaint’s dismissal. Wohnberger v Lucani, 2023 NY Slip Op 01758, First Dept 3-30-23

Practice Point: Here no motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3216 was made, but the judge dismissed the complaint sua sponte. A motion to set aside the order dismissing the complaint pursuant CPLR 5015 was made and denied. The denial was then successfully appealed here. This is the appropriate remedy when no appeal lies from the original order because the order was not issued pursuant to a motion.

 

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