Legal Opinion
Ward v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 8, 2011PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*472Defendant obtained a default judgment dismissing the action after plaintiffs failed to comply with a precondition to commencing action by failing to appear at a General Municipal Law § 50-h hearing, after adjourning the hearing nine times. In seeking to vacate the dismissal, plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a meritorious defense (see Best v City of New York, 97 AD2d 389 [1983], affd 61 NY2d 847 [1984]; Wells v City of New York, 254 AD2d 121 [1998], lv dismissed 92 NY2d 1046 [1999], cert denied 527 US 1012 [1999]). They also failed to demonstrate the merits of their cause of action by not…
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