Gordon v. Ratner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*635“CPLR 3216 is an ‘extremely forgiving’ statute (Baczkowski v Collins Constr. Co., 89 NY2d 499, 503 [1997]), which ‘never requires, but merely authorizes, the Supreme Court to dismiss a plaintiffs action based on the plaintiffs unreasonable neglect to proceed’ ” (Kadyimov v Mackinnon, 82 AD3d 938, 938 [2011], quoting Davis v Goodsell, 6 AD3d 382, 383 [2004]). Although the statute prohibits the Supreme Court from dismissing a complaint based on failure to prosecute whenever a plaintiff has shown a justifiable excuse for the delay and the existence of a potentially meritorious cause of action,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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