Sereda v. Sounds of Cuba, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Jane S. Solomon, J.), entered November 30, 2011, which granted plaintiffs motion to quash a post-note-of-issue subpoena ad testificandum that defendant sought to serve on a nonparty witness, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

In this negligence action arising from a slip and fall, defendant demanded from plaintiff the address of a nonparty witness, a friend of plaintiff who was with her the night she fell. Before responding to all of defendant’s discovery demands, including the demand for the witness’s address, plaintiff filed a note of issue and…