Legal Opinion
Vecciarelli v. King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 30, 2010PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*596Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jane S. Solomon, J.), entered November 3, 2008, which granted defendants’ motion for severance and separation of the action into five individual actions, with related relief, unanimously reversed, on the law and the facts and in the exercise of discretion, without costs, and the motion denied without prejudice to renewal after completion of discovery.
Where there is “a common nucleus of facts,” severance requires a showing that a joint trial will result in “prejudice or substantial delay” (see Sichel v Community Synagogue, 256 AD2d 276, 276 [1998]).…
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