Troeller v. Klein

Petitioner’s cause of action for breach of contract accrued on March 22, 2007, when he knew that at least some members of his union had not been paid the amount allegedly due under the January 2007 stipulation of settlement between the union and the Department of Education (DOE), and his lawyer wrote to DOE’s lawyer that the parties’ agreement was “quite different” from the way DOE was interpreting it (see Pope v Hempstead Union Free School Dist. Bd. of Educ., 194 AD2d 654 [1993], lv dismissed 82 NY2d 846 [1993]). Because the petition to deem the notice timely was brought more than one year…