Brady v. Blittner

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles Ramos, J.), entered April 9, 1998, which, to the extent appealed from, imposed sanctions upon plaintiffs’ counsel in the amount of $10,000, based upon counsel’s frivolous conduct in prosecuting the underlying litigation, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

As the record discloses that the instant action against defendants Carlyle Realty and Murray Silver was commenced by plaintiffs’ counsel without legal basis, the motion court’s imposition of sanctions against plaintiffs’ counsel constituted a proper exercise of discretion (22 NYCRR 130-1.1 [a]).…