Case Name: Onelia Matos, as Mother and Natural Guardian of Scott D. Gardner, Respondent, et al., Plaintiff, v. Ariel Blondet, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1994-07-15
Citations: 206 A.D.2d 968
Docket Number: Appeal No. 3
Parties: Onelia Matos, as Mother and Natural Guardian of Scott D. Gardner, Respondent, et al., Plaintiff, v Ariel Blondet, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 206
Pages: 968–969

Head Matter:
Onelia Matos, as Mother and Natural Guardian of Scott D. Gardner, Respondent, et al., Plaintiff, v Ariel Blondet, Appellant.
(Appeal No. 3.)
[616 NYS2d 322]

Opinion:
Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: We affirm for reasons stated in the decision at Supreme Court (Hurowitz, J.). We add only that plaintiffs failure to comply with the requirements of CPLR 3215 (e) does not warrant vacatur of the order entered October 30, 1989, which granted a default judgment in plaintiffs favor. Defendant failed to raise that issue until his second motion for renewal, made more than one year after the denial of his motion to vacate the order granting the default judgment. A motion to renew should not be granted to a party who "has proceeded on one legal theory on the assumption that what has been submitted is sufficient, and thereafter sought to move again on a different legal argument merely because he was unsuccessful upon the original application" (Foley v Roche, 68 AD2d 558, 568; see, Mid-State El. Co. v Empire-Salina Assocs. [appeal No. 2], 190 AD2d 1061). On his second motion to renew, defendant sought relief on a legal theory neither advanced in his initial motion for vacatur nor in his original motion to renew. The failure by defendant to allege plaintiff's non-compliance with CPLR 3215 (e) precludes the relief he seeks. (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Kings County, Hurowitz, J.—Renewal.) Present —Pine, J. P., Lawton, Wesley, Doerr and Boehm, JJ.