Legal Opinion

Ifejika-Obukwelu v. New York City Department of Education

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 10, 2008PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Janice L. Bowman, J.), entered on or about October 4, 2005, which denied plaintiffs’ motion to serve a late notice of claim, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

While the failure to proffer a reasonable excuse for delay in serving a notice of claim is not, by itself, fatal to a motion for leave to file a late notice, plaintiffs also failed to demonstrate that defendants had timely actual notice of the claim and that they sustained no prejudice by reason of the delay (see General Municipal Law § 50-e [1] [a]; [5]; Harris v City of New York, 297 AD2d 473,…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Harris v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
  2. Schifano v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004
  3. Pineda v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
  4. Tavarez v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
  5. Davis v. New York City Housing AuthorityAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996

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