Guerre v. Trustees of Columbia University

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Paula Oman-sky, J.), entered September 4, 2001, which denied plaintiff’s motion to vacate a judgment entered upon her default dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Vacatur of the default judgment entered against plaintiff was properly denied since plaintiff failed to demonstrate a reasonable excuse for her failure to appear, either pro se or by counsel, in opposition to defendant’s summary judgment motion. It does not avail plaintiff to attempt to excuse her default by claiming that she was unable to retain new counsel to appear…