Legal Opinion

Bloomfield v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided March 22, 2007Published

1Opinion of the Court

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Edgar G. Walker, J.), entered January 4, 2006, which denied plaintiffs motion for an order directing the Clerk to accept a late filing of summons and complaint and assign an index number, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

This action was commenced in 1988, and is thus governed by former CPLR 306-a (c) (see Schaffrick v City of Kingston, 217 AD2d 892 [1995]), under which the court would issue a nunc pro tunc order when timely filing had not been made (see Metropolitan Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v Roosevelt, 154 Misc 2d 336, 337 [1993]; Weinstein-Korn-Miller, NY…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Rodriguez v. Middle Atlantic Auto Leasing, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1986
  2. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance v. RooseveltNew York Supreme Court · 1993
  3. Gotay v. BreitbartAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
  4. Schaffrick v. City of KingstonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995

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