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PLAINTIFF AND HIS ATTORNEY SENT 75 LETTERS TO HARASS DEFENDANTS; SANCTIONS FOR FRIVOLOUS CONDUCT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSED (SECOND DEPT). ​

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff should have been sanctioned for harassing defendants:

In 2015, the plaintiff commenced this shareholder’s derivative action. After the action was commenced, the plaintiff and his attorney sent approximately 75 letters to various defendants, as well as those defendants’ family members, clergy, and attorneys. Therein, the plaintiff made disturbing references, among other things, to plagues, repentance, imprisonment, and punishment by the Internal Revenue Service for tax fraud. …

Pursuant to 22 NYCRR 130-1.1, sanctions may be imposed against a party or the party’s attorney for frivolous conduct. Conduct is “frivolous if: (1) it is completely without merit in law and cannot be supported by a reasonable argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law; (2) it is undertaken primarily to delay or prolong the resolution of the litigation, or to harass or maliciously injure another; or (3) it asserts material factual statements that are false” (22 NYCRR 130-1.1[c]). “A party seeking the imposition of a sanction or an award of an attorney’s fee pursuant to 22 NYCRR 130-1.1(c) has the burden of proof” … .

… [T]he defendants established that the plaintiff’s conduct in sending the subject letters was calculated to harass the defendants … . Glaubach v Slifkin, 2021 NY Slip Op 05323, Second Dept 10-7-21

 

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