534 East 11th Street Housing Development Fund Corp. v. Hendrick
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
On a motion to dismiss affirmative defenses pursuant to CELR 3211 (b), the plaintiff bears the burden of demonstrating that the defenses are without merit as a matter of law (see e.g. *542Vita v New York Waste Servs., LLC, 34 AD3d 559, 559 [2006]; Santilli v Allstate Ins. Co., 19 AD3d 1031, 1032 [2005]). In deciding a motion to dismiss a defense, the defendant is entitled to the benefit of every reasonable intendment of the pleading, which is to be liberally construed (Warwick v Cruz, 270 AD2d 255 [2000]). A defense should not be stricken where there are questions of fact requiring trial (see…
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