Court Opinion

ID: 5830552
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 22:15:29.359306+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:43:26.450951
License: Public Domain

There was no default in answering. Plaintiff waived its objections to the untimeliness of defendants’ answer by serving a reply to the counterclaims after rejecting the late answer and moving for a default judgment (cf. Oparaji v Duran, 18 AD3d 725 [2005]). In view of the foregoing, whether defendant demonstrated the grounds required for vacatur of a default and the other issues arising from the subsequent chain of events are academic. Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P, Saxe, Acosta, DeGrasse and Manzanet-Daniels, JJ.