Rivera v. NYP Holdings Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Milton A. Tingling, J.), entered December 18, 2008, which, to the extent appealed from, denied the motion of defendants NYP Holdings Inc., Zach Haberman and Jim Hinch to compel certain discovery, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs, and the motion to compel the sought disclosure granted.

We conclude that the denial of defendants’ motion to compel constituted an improvident exercise of discretion. Full disclosure is required of “all matter material and necessary” to the defense of an action (CPLR 3101 [a]), and the words “material…