Engeleit v. Atlantic

—Order, Supreme Court, New York *211County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered January 18, 2001, which granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the action pursuant to CPLR 3126, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The record discloses that plaintiff repeatedly failed to comply with discovery demands, that her prolonged and unjustified refusal to answer relevant deposition questions necessitated the continuance of her deposition over four dates, and that only in response to a conditional order of dismissal did she, for the first time, unequivocally state that she had unwittingly discarded certain…