Legal Opinion
Sonnenschine v. Giacomo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 27, 2002PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Sheila Abdus-Salaam, J.), entered April 18, 2001, which, in an action for legal malpractice, granted defendant-respondent’s motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action, and denied plaintiffs cross motion to serve an amended complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiffs allege that they would have succeeded in their defense of the underlying action but for defendants’ malpractice that caused their answer to be stricken in 1997, some 5V2 years after the underlying action was commenced (see, Sandcham Realty Corp. v…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Sage Realty Corp. v. Proskauer Rose L. L. P.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
- Mark Hampton, Inc. v. BergreenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
- Hutt v. TaubAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001
- Sandcham Realty Corp. v. SonnenschineAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
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