Belmont v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy S. Friedman, J), entered June 17, 2004, which denied the petition seeking preaction discovery pursuant to CELR 3102 (c), unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Petitioner did not show the existence of a meritorious cause of action sufficient to warrant granting her preaction discovery *293(see Holzman v Manhattan & Bronx Surface Tr. Operating Auth., 271 AD2d 346, 347-348 [2000]). The chattels which petitioner now seeks returned—shares of a now-defunct pharmaceutical company she claims her brother stole in 1987 and then merged into another company acquired by…