Case Name: Bruce Cohen, Respondent, v. Marcia Cohen, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-11-22
Citations: 209 A.D.2d 329
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bruce Cohen, Respondent, v Marcia Cohen, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 209
Pages: 329–329

Head Matter:
Bruce Cohen, Respondent, v Marcia Cohen, Appellant.
[619 NYS2d 546]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (David Saxe, J.), entered June 11, 1993, which, in an action for divorce commenced by service of a summons only, denied defendant's motion to vacate plaintiffs notice of voluntary discontinuance, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Vacatur of plaintiffs notice of discontinuance was properly denied on the ground that even if " 'devious or unfair conduct' " may, if "particularly egregious", estop a party from asserting its absolute and unconditional right to discontinue a claim before service of the pleading asserting it, no such showing was made (Giambrone v Giambrone, 140 AD2d 206, 207). Concur—Ross, J. P., Asch, Rubin, Nardelli and Tom, JJ.