Legal Opinion
Britt v. Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 5, 2009PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Diane Y. Devlin, J.), entered April 11, 2008. The order, inter alia, granted a stay of the action pending resolution of a related federal action.
It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in granting the alternative relief sought by defendants in their respective CPLR 3211 (a) (4) motions, i.e., to stay the action pending the outcome of a related federal action (see CPLR 2201; see generally Asher v Abbott Labs., 307 AD2d 211…
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