Legal Opinion
Allstate Insurance v. Buziashvili
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 25, 2010PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara R. Kap*572nick, J.), entered December 17, 2008, which granted plaintiffs’ motion to strike defendant Alex Buziashvili’s answer and for a default judgment against him, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs, the answer reinstated, and the matter remanded to the IAS court for consideration, after affording the parties an opportunity to be heard, of such penalty less them striking the answer as the court deems just.
To the extent the court believed it was constrained by the doctrine of law of the case to strike defendant’s answer…
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