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NY CPLR § 907 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 9 - Class Actions R907 - Orders in Conduct of Class Actions.

Rule  907. Orders in conduct of class actions. In the conduct of class   actions the court may make appropriate orders:1. determining the course of proceedings or  prescribing  measures  to   prevent undue repetition or complication in the presentation of evidence   or argument;2.  requiring,  for  the  protection  of  the members of the class, or   otherwise for the fair conduct of the action, that notice  be  given  in   such manner as the court may direct to some or all of the members of any   step in the action, or of the proposed extent of the judgment, or of the   opportunity   of   members   to   signify   whether  they  consider  the   representation fair and adequate, or to appear  and  present  claims  or   defenses, or otherwise to come into the action;3.   imposing   conditions   on   the  representative  parties  or  on   intervenors;4. requiring that the pleadings  be  amended  to  eliminate  therefrom   allegations  as to representation of absent persons, and that the action   proceed accordingly;5. directing that a money judgment favorable  to  the  class  be  paid   either  in one sum, whether forthwith or within such period as the court   may fix, or in such installments as the court may specify;6. dealing with similar procedural matters.The orders may be altered or amended as may be desirable from time  to   time.
NY CPLR § 908 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 9 - Class Actions R908 - Dismissal, Discontinuance or Compromise.

Rule  908.    Dismissal, discontinuance or compromise.  A class action   shall  not  be  dismissed,  discontinued,  or  compromised  without  the   approval   of   the   court.      Notice   of  the  proposed  dismissal,   discontinuance, or compromise shall be given to all members of the class   in such manner as the court directs.
NY CPLR § 909 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 9 - Class Actions R909 - Attorneys' Fees.

Rule  909. Attorneys' fees. If a judgment in an action maintained as a   class action is rendered in  favor  of  the  class,  the  court  in  its   discretion may award attorneys' fees to the representatives of the class   and/or to any other person that the court finds has acted to benefit the   class  based  on  the reasonable value of legal services rendered and if   justice requires, allow recovery of the amount awarded from the opponent   of the class.
NY CPLR § 1001 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1001 - Necessary Joinder of Parties.

§  1001.  Necessary  joinder  of  parties.  (a)  Parties who should be joined. Persons who ought to be parties if  complete  relief  is  to  be accorded  between the persons who are parties to the action or who might be inequitably affected by a  judgment  in  the  action  shall  be  made plaintiffs  or  defendants. When a person who should join as a plaintiff refuses to do so he may be made a defendant.  (b) When joinder excused. When a person who  should  be  joined  under subdivision  (a) has  not  been  made  a  party  and is subject to the jurisdiction of the court,  the  court  shall  order  him  summoned.  If jurisdiction over him can be obtained only by his consent or appearance, the  court,  when  justice  requires,  may  allow  the action to proceed without his being made a party. In  determining  whether  to  allow  the action to proceed, the court shall consider:   1.  whether  the  plaintiff  has  another effective remedy in case the action is dismissed on account of the nonjoinder;   2. the prejudice which may accrue from the nonjoinder to the defendant or to the person not joined;   3. whether and by whom prejudice might have been avoided or may in the future be avoided;   4. the feasibility of a protective provision by order of the court  or in the judgment; and   5. whether an effective judgment may be rendered in the absence of the person who is not joined.
NY CPLR § 1002 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1002 - Permissive Joinder of Parties.

§  1002.  Permissive  joinder of parties.  (a) Plaintiffs. Persons who assert any right to relief jointly, severally,  or  in  the  alternative arising   out   of  the  same  transaction,  occurrence,  or  series  of transactions or occurrences, may join in one action as plaintiffs if any common question of law or fact would arise.  (b) Defendants. Persons against whom there is asserted  any  right  to relief  jointly,  severally,  or  in the alternative, arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or  occurrences, may  be joined in one action as defendants if any common question of law or fact would arise.  (c) Separate relief; separate trials. It shall not be  necessary  that each  plaintiff  be  interested  in  obtaining,  or  each  defendant  be interested in defending against, all the relief demanded or as to  every claim  included in an action; but the court may make such orders as will prevent a party from being embarrassed, delayed, or put  to  expense  by the  inclusion  of  a  party  against  whom he asserts no claim and, who asserts no claim against him, and may  order  separate  trials  or  make other orders to prevent prejudice.
NY CPLR § 1003 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1003 - Nonjoinder and Misjoinder of Parties.

§  1003.  Nonjoinder  and misjoinder of parties. Nonjoinder of a party   who should be joined under section 1001 is a ground for dismissal of  an   action  without  prejudice unless the court allows the action to proceed   without that party under the provisions of that section.  Misjoinder  of   parties is not a ground for dismissal of an action. Parties may be added   at  any  stage  of the action by leave of court or by stipulation of all   parties who have appeared, or once without leave of court within  twenty   days  after  service  of  the  original summons or at anytime before the   period for responding to that summons  expires  or  within  twenty  days   after  service of a pleading responding to it. Parties may be dropped by   the court, on motion of any party or on its own initiative, at any stage   of the action and upon such terms as may be just. The  court  may  order   any claim against a party severed and proceeded with separately.
NY CPLR § 1004 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1004 - When Joinder Unnecessary.

§ 1004. When joinder unnecessary. Except where otherwise prescribed by   order of the court, an executor, administrator, guardian of the property   of  an  infant,  committee  of  the  property  of  a judicially declared   incompetent, conservator of the property of a conservatee, trustee of an   express trust, insured person who has executed to his insurer  either  a   loan   or   subrogation  receipt,  trust  agreement,  or  other  similar   agreement, or person with whom or in whose name a contract has been made   for the benefit of another, may sue or be sued without joining with  him   the person for or against whose interest the action is brought.
NY CPLR § 1007 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1007 - When Third-Party Practice Allowed.

§  1007.  When  third-party practice allowed. After the service of his   answer, a defendant may proceed against a person not a party who  is  or   may be liable to that defendant for all or part of the plaintiff's claim   against that defendant, by filing pursuant to section three hundred four   of  this  chapter  a third-party summons and complaint with the clerk of   the court in the county in which the main action is pending, for which a   separate index number shall not be issued but a  separate  index  number   fee  shall  be  collected. The third-party summons and complaint and all   prior pleadings served in the action shall be served  upon  such  person   within  one  hundred  twenty  days of the filing.  A defendant serving a   third-party complaint shall be styled a third-party  plaintiff  and  the   person  so served shall be styled a third-party defendant. The defendant   shall  also  serve  a  copy  of  such  third-party  complaint  upon  the   plaintiff's  attorney  simultaneously  upon  issuance for service of the   third-party complaint on the third-party defendant.
NY CPLR § 1008 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1008 - Answer of Third-Party Defendant; Defenses.

§  1008.  Answer  of  third-party defendant; defenses. The third-party   defendant shall answer the claim asserted against him or her by  serving   copies  of  his  or  her  answer  upon  the  third-party  plaintiff. The   third-party defendant may assert against the plaintiff  in  his  or  her   answer   any  defenses  which  the  third-party  plaintiff  has  to  the   plaintiff's claim except an objection or defense that  the  summons  and   complaint,  summons  with  notice or notice of petition and petition was   not properly served, or that jurisdiction  was  not  obtained  over  the   third-party  plaintiff.  The third-party defendant shall have the rights   of a party adverse to the other parties in  the  action,  including  the   right to counter-claim, cross-claim and appeal.
NY CPLR § 1009 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally R1009 - Claim by Plaintiff Against Third-Party Defendant.

Rule  1009.  Claim  by plaintiff against third-party defendant. Within   twenty days after service of the answer  to  the  third-party  complaint   upon plaintiff's attorney, the plaintiff may amend his complaint without   leave  of  court  to  assert against the third-party defendant any claim   plaintiff has against the third-party defendant.
NY CPLR § 1010 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally R1010 - Dismissal or Separate Trial of Third-Party Complaint.

Rule  1010. Dismissal or separate trial of third-party complaint.  The   court may dismiss a third-party complaint  without  prejudice,  order  a   separate  trial  of  the  third-party  claim  or  of  any separate issue   thereof, or make such other order as may  be  just.  In  exercising  its   discretion, the court shall consider whether the controversy between the   third-party  plaintiff  and  the third-party defendant will unduly delay   the determination of the main action or prejudice the substantial rights   of any party.
NY CPLR § 1011 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally R1011 - Successive Third-Party Proceedings; Counterclaims.

Rule   1011.  Successive  third-party  proceedings;  counterclaims.  A   third-party defendant may proceed pursuant to section 1007  against  any   person who is or may be liable to him for all or part of the third-party   claim.  When  a  counterclaim  is  asserted  against a plaintiff, he may   proceed pursuant to section 1007 as if he were a defendant.
NY CPLR § 1012 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1012 - Intervention as of Right; Notice to Attorney-General, City, County, Town or Village Where Constitutionality in Issue.

§  1012.  Intervention  as of right; notice to attorney-general, city, county,  town  or  village  where  constitutionality   in   issue.   (a) Intervention  as  of  right.  Upon  timely  motion,  any person shall be permitted to intervene in any action:   1. when a statute of the state confers an absolute right to intervene; or   2. when the representation of the person's interest by the parties  is or  may be inadequate and the person is or may be bound by the judgment; or   3. when the action involves the disposition or distribution of, or the title or a claim for damages for injury to, property and the person  may be affected adversely by the judgment.  (b)  Notice  to  attorney-general, city, county, town or village where constitutionality in issue. 1. When the constitutionality of  a  statute of  the  state,  or  a  rule  and regulation adopted pursuant thereto is involved  in  an  action  to  which  the  state  is  not  a  party,  the attorney-general,  shall  be  notified  and  permitted  to  intervene in support of its constitutionality.   2. When the constitutionality of  a  local  law,  ordinance,  rule  or regulation  of  a city, county, town or village is involved in an action to which the city, county, town or village that enacted the provision is not a party, such city, county, town or village shall  be  notified  and permitted to intervene in support of its constitutionality.   3.  The  court having jurisdiction in an action or proceeding in which the constitutionality of a state statute, local law, ordinance, rule  or regulation  is  challenged  shall  not  consider  any  challenge  to the constitutionality of such state statute, local law, ordinance,  rule  or regulation  unless  proof  of  service  of  the  notice required by this subdivision is filed with such court.  (c) Notice to comptroller of  the  state  of  New  York  where  public retirement  benefits  are  in  issue.  Where public retirement benefits, paid, payable, claimed, or sought to  be  paid  by  a  state  retirement system  or  any other retirement system established for public employees within this state or any subdivision thereof, or the  interpretation  of any  provisions  of law or rules governing any such retirement system or the  operation  thereof,  are  involved  in  an  action  to  which   the comptroller  of  the  state  of New York is not a party, the court shall notify said comptroller, who shall be permitted, in his  discretion,  to intervene in such action or to file a brief amicus curiae.
NY CPLR § 1013 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1013 - Intervention by Permission.

§ 1013. Intervention by permission. Upon timely motion, any person may   be  permitted  to  intervene  in  any action when a statute of the state   confers a right to intervene in the discretion of the court, or when the   person's claim or defense and the main action have a common question  of   law  or  fact.  In  exercising  its discretion, the court shall consider   whether the intervention will unduly  delay  the  determination  of  the   action or prejudice the substantial rights of any party.
NY CPLR § 1014 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1014 - Proposed Intervention Pleading.

§ 1014. Proposed intervention pleading. A motion to intervene shall be   accompanied  by  a  proposed pleading setting forth the claim or defense   for which intervention is sought.
NY CPLR § 1015 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1015 - Substitution Upon Death.

§  1015.  Substitution  upon death. (a) Generally. If a party dies and the claim for or against him is not thereby extinguished the court shall order substitution of the proper parties.  (b) Devolution of rights or liabilities on  other  parties.  Upon  the death  of  one  or  more of the plaintiffs or defendants in an action in which the right sought to be enforced survives  only  to  the  surviving plaintiffs  or  against  the  surviving  defendants, the action does not abate. The death shall be noted on  the  record  and  the  action  shall proceed.
NY CPLR § 1016 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1016 - Substitution of Committee or Conservator.

§  1016.  Substitution  of  committee  or  conservator.  If a party is   adjudicated incompetent or a conservator has been appointed,  the  court   shall order substitution of his committee or conservator.
NY CPLR § 1017 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1017 - Substitution in Case of Receivership or Dissolution of a Corporation.

§  1017.  Substitution  in  case  of  receivership or dissolution of a   corporation. If a receiver is appointed for  a  party,  or  a  corporate   party  is  dissolved,  the  court shall order substitution of the proper   parties.
NY CPLR § 1018 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1018 - Substitution Upon Transfer of Interest.

§  1018.  Substitution upon transfer of interest. Upon any transfer of   interest, the action may be continued by or against the original parties   unless the court directs the person to whom the interest is  transferred   to be substituted or joined in the action.
NY CPLR § 1019 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1019 - Substitution of Public Officers.

§  1019.  Substitution of public officers. If a person made a party in   his capacity as public officer dies or otherwise ceases to hold  office,   the  action  may be continued by or against his successor if it is shown   to the court  that  there  is  need  for  so  continuing  it.  Before  a   substitution  is  made  his  successor  and,  unless the court otherwise   orders, the party shall be given reasonable notice  of  the  motion  and   accorded  an  opportunity  to  object.  When, in accordance with section   1023, an officer is described by his official title and his name is  not   added, no substitution is necessary.
NY CPLR § 1020 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1020 - Substitution of Indemnitors for Executing or Attaching Officer.

§  1020.  Substitution  of  indemnitors  for  executing  or  attaching   officer.  Where an action is brought against an  officer  to  recover  a   chattel levied upon by virtue of an execution or order of attachment, or   to  recover  damages for the detention or sale of such a chattel, and an   undertaking indemnifying the officer against such acts has  been  given,   the court may order that the indemnitor be substituted for the officer.
NY CPLR § 1021 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1021 - Substitution Procedure; Dismissal for Failure to Substitute; Presentation of Appeal.

§  1021.  Substitution procedure; dismissal for failure to substitute;   presentation of appeal. A motion for substitution may  be  made  by  the   successors  or  representatives  of a party or by any party. If a person   who should be substituted does not appear voluntarily he may be  made  a   party defendant. If the event requiring substitution occurs before final   judgment  and  substitution  is  not  made within a reasonable time, the   action may be dismissed as to the party  for  whom  substitution  should   have  been  made,  however,  such  dismissal  shall not be on the merits   unless the court shall so indicate.  If the event requiring substitution   occurs after final judgment, substitution may  be  made  in  either  the   court  from  or to which an appeal could be or is taken, or the court of   original instance, and if substitution is not made  within  four  months   after the event requiring substitution, the court to which the appeal is   or  could  be taken may dismiss the appeal, impose conditions or prevent   it from being taken. Whether or not it  occurs  before  or  after  final   judgment,  if  the event requiring substitution is the death of a party,   and timely substitution has not been made, the court, before  proceeding   further, shall, on such notice as it may in its discretion direct, order   the  persons  interested  in the decedent's estate to show cause why the   action or appeal should not be dismissed.
NY CPLR § 1022 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1022 - Substitution: Extension of Time for Taking Procedural Steps.

§  1022.  Substitution: extension of time for taking procedural steps.   Unless the court orders otherwise, if the time for making a motion for a   new trial or for taking an appeal or for making a motion for  permission   to  appeal or for taking any other procedural step in the action has not   expired before the occurrence of an event permitting substitution  of  a   party, the period is extended as to all parties until fifteen days after   substitution  is  made,  or,  in  case  of dismissal of the action under   section 1021, is extended as to all parties  until  fifteen  days  after   such dismissal.
NY CPLR § 1023 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1023 - Public Body or Officer Described by Official Title.

§ 1023.  Public  body  or  officer described by official title. When a   public officer, body, board, commission or other public agency  may  sue   or  be  sued  in  its  official  capacity,  it  may be designated by its   official title, subject to the power of the court to require names to be   added.
NY CPLR § 1024 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1024 - Unknown Parties.

§ 1024. Unknown parties. A party who is ignorant, in whole or in part,   of  the  name  or identity of a person who may properly be made a party,   may proceed against such person as an unknown party  by  designating  so   much  of  his name and identity as is known. If the name or remainder of   the name becomes known all subsequent proceedings shall be  taken  under   the  true  name  and  all  prior  proceedings  shall  be  deemed amended   accordingly.
NY CPLR § 1025 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1025 - Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations.

§  1025.  Partnerships  and  unincorporated  associations. Two or more   persons conducting a business as a partnership may sue or be sued in the   partnership name, and actions may be brought by or against the president   or  treasurer  of  an  unincorporated  association  on  behalf  of   the   association   in   accordance   with   the  provisions  of  the  general   associations law.
NY CPLR § 1026 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVP - Civil Practice Law and Rules Article 10 - Parties Generally 1026 - Review of Determinations by Administrative Officers of the Unified Court System.

§  1026.  Review  of  determinations by administrative officers of the   unified court system. In any action or proceeding brought  to  review  a   determination  of  the chief judge of the court of appeals, of the court   of appeals or of the administrative board of the courts,  made  pursuant   to  the  provisions  of  article seven-A of the judiciary law or section   twenty-eight of article six of the constitution, the only  proper  party   to  be  named therein shall be the chief administrator of the courts, in   his representative capacity. No action or proceeding so instituted shall   name the chief judge, the court of appeals or any member thereof, or the   administrative board or any member thereof as a party.