Queen Mother Dr. Delois Blakely v. Pitts

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Doris Ling-Cohan, J.), entered January 13, 2009, which, in an action seeking, inter alia, to set aside an alleged fraudulent mortgage loan, denied plaintiffs motion to vacate a prior order, same court (Richard F. Braun, J.), entered August 22, 2008, dismissing the complaint for failure to appear at a compliance conference, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The motion court’s denial of plaintiffs motion was a provident exercise of discretion (see generally Goldman v Cotter, 10 AD3d 289, 291 [2004]). Although the illness that allegedly prevented…