Ramos v. City of New York

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alison Y. Tuitt, J.), entered January 19, 2006, which denied the City’s motion to reconsolidate its previously severed third-party action with the main action and set the matter down for a conference to resolve outstanding discovery issues, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Regardless of whether the City’s motion is deemed one to renew or to reconsolidate, the court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the motion. To begin with, the City served its third-party complaint against third-party defendant on March 24, 2004, which was nearly…