Kaplan v. KCK Studios, Inc.

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered August 26, 1996, which dismissed the complaint in its entirety for failure to comply with a disclosure order, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the complaint reinstated except as to the discontinued thirteenth and fifteenth causes of action and those previously dismissed in orders other than the one appealed from.

We find that the IAS Court abused its discretion by imposing the drastic remedy of dismissal of the complaint.

Even assuming that plaintiff, who at that time was proceeding pro se, was deserving…