Surgical Design Corp. v. Correa

In related actions, inter alia, to recover corporate property and funds, the defendants in Action No. 1 appeal, by permission, from stated portions of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Golia, J.), dated August 26, 2002, which, among other things, sua sponte appointed a private attorney to be compensated by the parties to serve as a referee to oversee discovery.

Ordered that the order is modified by deleting the provision thereof which sua sponte appointed a private attorney to be compensated by the parties to serve as a referee to oversee discovery; as so modified, the order is…