Case Name: Christine White et al., Respondents, v. Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center et al., Defendants, and Mehendra B. Dave et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-06-10
Citations: 240 A.D.2d 212
Docket Number: 
Parties: Christine White et al., Respondents, v Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center et al., Defendants, and Mehendra B. Dave et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 240
Pages: 212–212

Head Matter:
Christine White et al., Respondents, v Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center et al., Defendants, and Mehendra B. Dave et al., Appellants.
[658 NYS2d 288]

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Jerry Crispino, J.), entered October 16, 1996, which granted plaintiffs' motion to quash the subpoena and notice to take deposition of a nonresident, nonparty witness, and denied defendants' cross motion for an order directing the witness's deposition, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
In seeking to take the deposition of a nonresident, nonparty witness nine months after the note of issue was filed, defendants have failed to demonstrate any unusual or unanticipated circumstance warranting deviation from the rule that disclosure proceedings may not be conducted after the filing of the note of issue (see, Price v Bloomingdale's, 166 AD2d 151). Further, the subpoena served by defendants upon the out-of-State nonparty witness has no legal effect in New York (Coombs v Rowand, 39 AD2d 532, appeal dismissed 31 NY2d 853). We have considered defendants' remaining claims and find them to be without merit. Concur—Wallach, J. P., Rubin, Tom and Andrias, JJ.