Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft v. Associated Builders & Owners of Greater New York, Inc.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Michael J. Dontzin, J.

Plaintiff moves pursuant to CPLR 41091 to limit to six the number of peremptory challenges allotted all the defendants, on the grounds that defendants’ interests are shared among two groups that have a unity of interest, and *828that to permit more than the six peremptory challenges would make the jury selection process unduly lengthy, burdensome and unequitable. Defendants, 21 in number, claim that each is entitled to three challenges under the statute, but at a minimum, that there are eight groups which have a unity of interests, each having separate…