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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George Rodriguez et al., Respondents, v Daniel Pontillo, Appellant.
    [756 NYS2d 760]
   —In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the defendant appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Bellantoni, J.), dated January 30, 2002, which, upon a jury verdict, is in favor of the plaintiffs and against him in the principal sum of $107,284.30.

Ordered that the appeal is dismissed, without costs or disbursements.

As a general rule, we do not consider an issue raised on a subsequent appeal that was raised, or could have been raised, in an earlier appeal which was dismissed for lack of prosecution, although we have inherent jurisdiction to do so (see Rubeo v National Grange Mut. Ins. Co., 93 NY2d 750 [1999]; Bray v Cox, 38 NY2d 350 [1976]). Here, the defendant appealed from a prior order of the Supreme Court entered October 16, 2001, which denied his motion pursuant to CPLR 4404 (a) to set aside the jury verdict on the ground that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury and for judgment in his favor as a matter of law. That appeal (Appellate Division Docket No. 2001-09535) was dismissed by decision and order on motion of this Court, dated July 12, 2002, for failure to prosecute. Under the circumstances of this case, the dismissal for lack of prosecution bars the instant appeal which raises issues which could have been raised on the prior appeal (see Rubeo v National Grange Mut. Ins. Co., supra; Bray v Cox, supra). Altman, J.P., Krausman, McGinity and Cozier, JJ., concur.