Court Opinion

ID: 5767394
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 17:25:38.766781+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:41:41.408186
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Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alison Y. Tuitt, J.), entered June 23, 2008, which denied defendants-appellants’ motion for an order directing the issuance of a commission pursuant to CPLR 3108 to examine a nonparty witness in California, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The motion court properly denied the motion since “absent allegations that the proposed out-of-State deponent would not cooperate with a notice of deposition or would not voluntarily come within this State or that ‘the judicial imprimatur accompanying a commission will be necessary or helpful when the [designee] seeks the assistance of the foreign court in compelling the witness to attend the examination’, the [appellants have] failed to demonstrate that a commission is ‘necessary or convenient’ ” (Susan A. v Steven J.A., 141 AD2d 790, 791 [1988] [citation omitted], quoting Wiseman v American Motors Sales Corp., 103 AD2d 230, 235 [1984]; see also Lewis v Baker, 279 AD2d 380, 380-381 [2001]).
*220Motion seeking leave to strike portions of the reply brief denied.
Concur—Tom, J.E, Saxe, McGuire, Moskowitz and Freedman, JJ.