Filed May 6, 2014
at 529 (citation omitted) 18 91 N.Y.2d 180 (1997). 19 215 N.Y. 533 (1915). 20 Id.
Filed May 6, 2014
Indeed, the “important consideration is that by invoking judicial aid, a litigant gives timely notice to his adversary of a present purpose to maintain his rights before the courts.” Gaines, 215 N.Y. at 596 (emphasis added); see also Siegel, N.Y. Prac. § 52 (5th ed.) (“key inquiry” is whether the first action provided “the defendant [with] notice within the applicable period of limitation”).
Filed September 5, 2017
Instead, the 36 statute must be interpreted based on the facts at hand. See Gaines v. City of New York, 215 N.Y. 533, 541 (1915) (“Grotesque or fanciful situ- ations, such as those supposed, will have to be dealt with when they arise. That they are conceivable, though improbable, ought not to gov- ern our construction.”)
Filed April 30, 2015
To be sure, statutes of limitation “embody an important policy of giving repose to human affairs” by “afford[ing] protection to defendants against defending stale claims after a reasonable period of time ha[s] elapsed,” Flanagan v. Mount Eden Gen. Hosp., 24 N.Y.2d 427, 429 (1969), and protection to “judicial system from the burden of adjudicating stale and groundless claims.” Duffy, 66 N.Y.2d at 476-77; see also Gaines v. City of N.Y., 215 N.Y. 533, 539 (1915) (Cardozo, J.) (“The important consideration is that by invoking judicial aid, a litigant gives timely notice to his adversary of a present purpose to maintain his rights before the courts.”).
Filed May 6, 2014
CPLR 205(a) is a “vitally important” remedial statute that should not “be frittered away by any narrow construction” or “subordinate[d].” 12 Goldstein, 13 N.Y.3d at 521; Gaines v. City of New York, 215 N.Y. 533, 539 (1915) (Cardozo, J.). II.
Filed April 30, 2015
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Filed July 25, 2014
Its broad and liberal purpose is not to be frittered away by any narrow construction. The important consideration is that by invoking judicial aid, a litigant gives timely notice to his adversary of a present purpose to maintain his rights before the courts" (Gaines v City of New York, 215 NY 533, 539, 109 N.E. 594 [1915]) [emphasis added]; see also Goldstein v New York State Urban Dev. Corp., 13 NY3d 511, 521, 921 N.E.2d 164, 893 N.Y.S.2d 472 [2009] [Section 205 (a) "shares with its venerable predecessor provisions [*24] the broad and liberal purpose of remedying what might otherwise be the harsh consequence of applying a limitations period where the defending party has had timely notice of the action" (internal quotation marks omitted)]). Forum Shopping Finally, defendants accuse Norex of forum shopping in contravention of CPLR 202, having made a "strategic decision" to litigate first in Russia and then in federal court, where it did not assert any New York claims, before finally settling on state court when these earlier lawsuits proved unsuccessful.