Case Name: Maude Sutherland, an Infant, by Her Mother and Natural Guardian, Hester Sutherland, et al., Plaintiffs, v. City of New York et al., Respondents. Walton Sutherland, Non-party Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1997-12-23
Citations: 245 A.D.2d 210
Docket Number: 
Parties: Maude Sutherland, an Infant, by Her Mother and Natural Guardian, Hester Sutherland, et al., Plaintiffs, v City of New York et al., Respondents. Walton Sutherland, Non-party Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 245
Pages: 210–211

Head Matter:
Maude Sutherland, an Infant, by Her Mother and Natural Guardian, Hester Sutherland, et al., Plaintiffs, v City of New York et al., Respondents. Walton Sutherland, Non-party Appellant.
[666 NYS2d 615]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Karla Moskowitz, J.), entered November 15, 1996, which granted defendants' respective cross motions for sanctions against appellant and a protective order against his initiating any further litigation in this matter except for the instant appeal, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Appellant, despite repeated warnings by the court against persisting in his attempt to vacate or modify an infant compromise order made 10 years earlier to which he was neither a party nor the attorney of record, nevertheless did so with motions that were completely without merit and had not even been served upon the infant plaintiff, her guardian mother, also a plaintiff, or their attorney of record, thereby causing substantial and unnecessary expense and work that amply justified the sanctions and injunction imposed. Concur—Ellerin, J. P., Nardelli, Williams, Andrias and Colabella, JJ.