Legal Opinion
Smothers v. County of Erie
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 10, 2000PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: In July 1999 Mandeep K. Brar, M.D. (defendant) retained the former attorneys of plaintiff’s treating physician, who had been represented by them in March 1998 for purposes of a deposition in plaintiff’s medical malpractice case against defendant. Plaintiff moved to disqualify the attorneys from representing defendant on the ground of a conflict of interest. We conclude that Supreme Court did not abuse its discretion in denying plaintiffs motion (see, Olmoz v Town of Fishkill, 258 AD2d 447, 447-448). Plaintiff failed to prove that she had…
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