Legal Opinion
Suozzi v. Parente
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 3, 1990PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Walter M. Schackman, J.), entered June 26, 1989, denying plaintiffs oral application for the 1986 income tax records of defendants DeRiggi and Reilly, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff seeks the financial disclosure in this defamation action solely in support of his claim for punitive damages. Such discovery should await the return of a special verdict on the question of liability (Rupert v Sellers, 48 AD2d 265), and is inappropriate at this pretrial stage (Dufresne v Duemler, 108 AD2d 1102). At the very least, plaintiff must demonstrate some…
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- Dufresne v. DuemlerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1985
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