Smith v. Ford Foundation

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Diane Lebedeff, J.), entered on or about January 18, 1996, which granted plaintiffs’ motion and third-party defendant’s cross motion to strike appellants’ pleadings to the extent of compelling production of certain documents, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

There is no basis to disturb the motion court’s finding, made after an in camera inspection, that the documents had no more than a "mixed” litigation and business purpose (Commerce & Indus. Ins. Co. v Laufer Vision World, 225 AD2d 313, 314), and were not prepared solely at the direction of counsel or…