Case Name: Paul Cerreta et al., Respondents, v. New Jersey Transit Corporation et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1998-06-23
Citations: 251 A.D.2d 190
Docket Number: 
Parties: Paul Cerreta et al., Respondents, v New Jersey Transit Corporation et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 251
Pages: 190–191

Head Matter:
Paul Cerreta et al., Respondents, v New Jersey Transit Corporation et al., Appellants.
[675 NYS2d 858]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Lebedeff, J.), entered February 5, 1998, which denied defendants' motion for disclosure sanctions based on plaintiffs' failure to comply with a prior order precluding their testimony at trial unless they appeared for depositions on a specified date, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
We affirm on the ground that no good faith affidavit was submitted with the motion (22 NYCRR 202.7 [a] [2]), and note that the parties' attorneys were in actual telephone communication with each other three days before the scheduled date of the depositions, and that the attorneys' affirmations that were submitted in support of the motion contain no indication of good faith efforts in that conversation to set up the depositions. The opportunity then missed only resulted in further court intervention that was not needed. Concur — Lerner, P. J., Rubin, Williams, Mazzarelli and Andrias, JJ.