Case Name: Deborah Everett, Respondent, v. Michael Brown, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-12-04
Citations: 278 A.D.2d 195
Docket Number: 
Parties: Deborah Everett, Respondent, v Michael Brown, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 278
Pages: 195–195

Head Matter:
Deborah Everett, Respondent, v Michael Brown, Appellant.
[716 NYS2d 904]

Opinion:
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rappaport, J.), dated February 29, 2000, as conditionally granted the plaintiff's motion pursuant to CPLR 3126 to strike his answer unless he provided a photograph of himself within 30 days, and denied his cross motion to stay enforcement of a prior order of the same court, dated November 17, 1999, directing him to produce a photograph of himself, pending an appeal therefrom.
Ordered that the appeal is dismissed, with costs.
A litigant may not raise an issue on a subsequent appeal which was raised, or could have been raised, in an earlier appeal that was dismissed for lack of prosecution (see, Bray v Cox, 38 NY2d 350). Here, the defendant appealed from a prior order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, dated November 17, 1999, which directed him to produce a photograph of himself. That appeal (App Div Docket No. 1999-11790) was dismissed by decision and order of this Court dated September 15, 2000, for failure to prosecute. The dismissal for lack of prosecution bars the instant appeal, which raises issues that could have been raised on the prior appeal (see, Rubeo v National Grange Mut. Ins. Co., 93 NY2d 750; Bray v Cox, supra). O'Brien, J. P., Sullivan, Krausman, Goldstein and Schmidt, JJ., concur.