Legal Opinion
Hodge v. New York City Transit Authority
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 8, 2000PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Lippmann, J.), entered October 5, 1998, which granted defendants’ oral motion to dismiss the action, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the motion denied and the matter remanded for assignment to another Justice.
Dismissal of this personal injury and medical malpractice action at the final court conference on October 1, 1998 was unsupported by any applicable legal authority and in disregard of settled law. True, the action was 17 years old, and was initially pursued in a dilatory manner, but not all of the delay was caused by…
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