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Lau v. Sullivan County District Attorney Stephen F. Lungen

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
Sep 23, 1999
264 A.D.2d 912 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)

Opinion

Decided and Entered: September 23, 1999

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Donohue, J.), entered May 27, 1998 in Sullivan County, which denied plaintiff's motion for reconsideration.

Gilbert Lau, New York City, appellant in person.

Ira J. Cohen, County Attorney (Steven S. Katz of counsel), Monticello, for Sullivan County District Attorney Stephen F. Lungen and another, respondents.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney-General (Mary Lynn Nicolas of counsel), New York City, for Norman Kantrowitz, respondent.

Before: MIKOLL, J.P., MERCURE, CREW III, YESAWICH JR. and CARPINELLO, JJ.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER


Plaintiff commenced this action in response to the decision of the Sullivan County District Attorney's office not to prosecute Cecelia Castellanos for allegedly abusing the power of attorney given to her by plaintiff and stealing plaintiff's money. Following dismissal of the complaint upon motions by defendants, plaintiff moved, by order to show cause, for leave to renew based upon a December 9, 1996 transcript of a hearing at which plaintiff appeared and a copy of an unrelated felony complaint filed in a criminal prosecution in New York County against a defendant who abused a power of attorney. Supreme Court denied plaintiff's motion, prompting this appeal.

We affirm. As found by Supreme Court, the evidence presented in support of plaintiff's motion to renew was not newly discovered evidence inasmuch as it was either available when the original motions to dismiss were made or immaterial to the merits of the action (see, Spa Realty Assocs. v. Springs Assocs., 213 A.D.2d 781, 783). Furthermore, to the extent that the court considered plaintiff's motion as one for reargument, we note that the denial thereof is not appealable (see, Matter of La Farge v. Town of Mamakating, 257 A.D.2d 752, 753, 683 N.Y.S.2d 344, 345, lv denied 93 N.Y.2d 809; Spa Realty Assocs. v. Springs Assocs., supra).

MERCURE, CREW III, YESAWICH JR. and CARPINELLO, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.


Summaries of

Lau v. Sullivan County District Attorney Stephen F. Lungen

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department
Sep 23, 1999
264 A.D.2d 912 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
Case details for

Lau v. Sullivan County District Attorney Stephen F. Lungen

Case Details

Full title:GILBERT LAU, Appellant, v. SULLIVAN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY STEPHEN F…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department

Date published: Sep 23, 1999

Citations

264 A.D.2d 912 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
696 N.Y.S.2d 248

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