Reel v. College of New Rochelle

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Anne E. Tar gum, J), entered on or about February 19, 2004, which granted plaintiffs motion to restore the action to the pretrial calendar, subject to certain discovery deadlines, and denied defendants’ cross motion to dismiss the action and impose costs and sanctions, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

There was no showing that this action had been abandoned. Conditions precedent to dismissal for want of prosecution require joinder of issue, passage of one year since joinder, and written demand by the party seeking dismissal, by registered or certified…