Arendt v. General Electric Co.

—Carpinello, J.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Ceresia, Jr., J.), entered July 19, 1999 in Albany County, which partially denied plaintiffs’ motion to compel disclosure.

In this discrimination action commenced by laid-off employees of defendant’s corporate research and development division, plaintiffs moved to compel defendant to answer certain interrogatories, produce various documents pursuant to CPLR 3111 and produce its chief executive officer for a pretrial deposition. In a thorough and well-reasoned decision, Supreme Court partially granted the motion. Specifically, the court…