Court Opinion

ID: 6070719
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 17:04:14.715894+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:52:53.760779
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—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard Lowe, III, J.), entered May 26, 2000, which denied the motion of defendant Town and Village of Scarsdale (Scarsdale) for a change of venue from New York County to Westchester County, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Scarsdale’s motion for a change of venue was properly denied. Scarsdale’s 16-month delay in making its motion was inordinate since it possessed the information necessary to the motion from the time of the action’s commencement and of*328fered no reasonable excuse for the delay (see, CPLR 511 [a]; Schwarz v Armand Erpf Estate, 232 AD2d 316). Concur— Nardelli, J. P., Mazzarelli, Wallach, Lerner and Friedman, JJ.