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SUPREME COURT ADDRESSED THE MERITS OF THE ACTION WITHOUT DISCOVERY AND TRIAL; THE COURT SHOULD ONLY HAVE DECIDED WHETHER PETITIONER WAS ENTITLED TO A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION; MATTER REMITTED FOR PROCEEDINGS BEFORE A DIFFERENT JUDGE (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing Supreme Court and remitting the matter to a different judge, determined this breach-of-contract/preliminary-injunction/declaratory-judgment/Article-78 proceeding should not have been decided on the merits without discovery, the filing of a note of issue and a trial. The court should have decided only whether petitioner was entitled to a preliminary injunction. Petitioner is a contractor hired by respondents to install a water system for snow-making for ski trails. Respondents terminated the contract for cause and petitioner brought an action for a preliminary injunction (prohibiting respondents from awarding the contract to others without competitive bidding), a declaratory judgment, and breach of contract:

… Supreme Court should have confined … its determination to whether petitioner was entitled to a preliminary injunction. … Supreme Court prematurely resolved the merits of petitioner’s declaratory judgment cause of action and respondents’ counterclaims, without first affording the parties their rights to discovery and a jury trial on the claims/counterclaims raised in the plenary action (see CPLR 3103 [a]; 4101 …), and without a note of issue and certificate of readiness having been filed. Moreover, Supreme Court did not acknowledge or address petitioner’s third cause of action for breach of contract, even though the plenary action involves, at its heart, a contract dispute. Although petitioner also asserted a cause of action for a declaratory judgment, the award of declaratory relief hinges on the resolution of the contract dispute — that is, whether respondents wrongfully terminated the contract for cause under the terms of the contract. Matter of Murnane Bldg. Contrs., Inc. v New York State Olympic Regional Dev. Auth., 2021 NY Slip Op 05756, Third Dept 10-21-21

 

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