Baskin & Sears, P. C. v. Lyons

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Davis B. Saxe, J.), entered December 5, 1990, which granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment on its claim of $32,193 with interest and dismissed defendants’ affirmative defenses and counterclaims, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Defendants urge that the IAS Court violated the "law of the case” doctrine when it allegedly disregarded an earlier court’s decision which granted defendants leave to amend their an*308swer and to assert affirmative defenses and counterclaims. However, it is clear that the standard applied on a motion to amend a pleading is…