Langer v. Miller

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Sheila Abdus-Salaam, J.), entered February 3, 2000, which granted plaintiff’s motion to strike defendants’ answer *339and directed the parties to proceed to inquest, at which defendants are to be precluded from affirmatively offering any evidence, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The record clearly indicates that defendants’ failure to comply with a preliminary conference order and two compliance conference orders, the last of which explicitly permitted an order to be entered striking defendants’ answer if compliance were not forthcoming, was willful and…