Case Name: Yelena Isakbayeva, Respondent, v. Errol Thompson, Defendant. Robert J. Walker, Nonparty Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2004-04-12
Citations: 6 A.D.3d 497
Docket Number: 
Parties: Yelena Isakbayeva, Respondent, v Errol Thompson, Defendant. Robert J. Walker, Nonparty Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 497–498

Head Matter:
Yelena Isakbayeva, Respondent, v Errol Thompson, Defendant. Robert J. Walker, Nonparty Appellant.
[774 NYS2d 419]

Opinion:
—In an action to recover damages for medical malpractice, nonparty Robert J. Walker, the defendant's attorney, appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, (Weiss, J.), dated July 14, 2003, as granted that branch of the plaintiffs motion which was for the imposition of a sanction upon him pursuant to CPLR 3126.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Contrary to the contention of the appellant, the defendant's attorney, the Supreme Court providently exercised its broad discretion, to which we accord substantial deference, in imposing a sanction upon him pursuant to CPLR 3126 for his conduct during disclosure (see Zletz v Wetanson, 67 NY2d 711, 713 [1986]; Orner v Mount Sinai Hosp., 305 AD2d 307, 309 [2003]; Jaffe v Hubbard, 299 AD2d 395 [2002]; New v Scores Entertainment, 255 AD2d 108 [1998]; Taub v Wulwick, 168 AD2d 492, 493 [1990]; Miller v Duffy, 126 AD2d 527, 528 [1987]; Sawh v Bridges, 120 AD2d 74, 77-78 [1986]; cf. Bach v City of New York, 304 AD2d 686 [2003]). Prudenti, P.J., Ritter, Luciano and Crane, JJ., concur.