Case Name: Joseph Gissaro et al., Appellants, v. Michael Lessne et al., Defendants. (Matter No. 1.); In the Matter of William Lessne, Respondent, v. Joseph Gissaro et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. (Matter No. 2.)
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2002-12-02
Citations: 300 A.D.2d 281
Docket Number: 
Parties: Joseph Gissaro et al., Appellants, v Michael Lessne et al., Defendants. (Matter No. 1.) In the Matter of William Lessne, Respondent, v Joseph Gissaro et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. (Matter No. 2.)
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 300
Pages: 281–282

Head Matter:
Joseph Gissaro et al., Appellants, v Michael Lessne et al., Defendants. (Matter No. 1.) In the Matter of William Lessne, Respondent, v Joseph Gissaro et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. (Matter No. 2.)
[750 NYS2d 876]

Opinion:
—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for personal injuries and a related proceeding pursuant to RPAPL 713 (7), which were consolidated for trial, Joseph Gissaro and Wanda Gissaro, the plaintiffs in Matter No. 1, and respondents in Matter No. 2, appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Skelos, J.), dated November 23, 2001, as imposed a $500 sanction upon them as a condition to granting their motion to vacate a determination of the same court, dated October 10, 2001, in effect, pursuant to CPLR 3126, precluding them from seeking further discovery.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in conditioning the vacatur of its prior determination upon the appellants' payment of a monetary sanction to the respondent William Lessne (see generally Coven v Trust Co. of N.J., 225 AD2d 576; Sasson v Sasson, 134 AD2d 491; Gabrelian v Gabrelian, 108 AD2d 445). Santucci, J.P., McGinity, Luciano and Schmidt, JJ., concur.