Greenwald v. H & P 29th Street Associates

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (David Saxe, J.), entered September 30, 1996, which in an action to recover damages for discrimination based upon defendants apartment building owner’s and managing agent’s refusal to aggregate plaintiffs’ incomes for purposes of defendants’ minimum income guidelines, inter alia, denied plaintiffs’ motion for a protective order limiting disclosure to matters not privileged under CPLR 4502 (b), unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The IAS Court correctly held that the spousal privilege of CPLR 4502 (b), which, by its terms, protects confidential communications…