CPLR Update Bridging the Gap | August 2018 New York State Bar Association Committee Continuing Legal Education ____________________________________________________________________________ Speaker: David L. Ferstendig, Esq. Law Offices of David L. Ferstendig, LLC. New York City Date: Thursday, August 16, 2018 Time: 9:05 to 10:20 a.m. Where: Hotel Pennsylvania 401 7th Avenue New York, NY 10001 DAVID L. FERSTENDIG BIO David L. Ferstendig, currently a member of Law Offices of David L. Ferstendig, LLC, New York, was a founding officer of the law firm Breindel & Ferstendig, P.C. He litigates a spectrum of civil and commercial matters, including breach of contract, products liability, toxic tort, insurance and reinsurance coverage, jewelers’ block, political risk, environmental liability, trade secret, and professional indemnity. Mr. Ferstendig is also an adjunct law professor at Brooklyn Law School and New York Law School, where he teaches New York Practice. He is the General Editor of Weinstein, Korn & Miller New York Civil Practice: CPLR (LexisNexis), the premier 15-volume litigation treatise cited regularly as authoritative by New York State and Federal courts; author of Ferstendig, Chase New York CPLR Manual (LexisNexis) and LexisNexis AnswerGuide New York Civil Litigation; and General Editor of CPLR Practice Insights, published in New York Consolidated Laws Service (LexisNexis). He has written articles for the New York Law Journal, authored a law review article entitled: “A Practitioner’s Continued Uncertainty: Disclosure from Nonparties,” 74 ALB. L. REV. 731 (2010/2011) and was a panelist at New York University School of Law in March 2013 for the symposium entitled “The CPLR at Fifty: Its Past, Present, and Future” which resulted in the publication of his remarks, “The CPLR: A Practitioner’s Perspective.” Mr. Ferstendig has co-authored two law review articles with Professor Oscar Chase of NYU Law School entitled: Chief Judge Kaye: Improving the Pace and Integration of Litigation, 92 N.Y.U. L. REV. 11 (2017) and Should Counsel for a Non-Party Deponent be a “Potted Plant”?, 2014 N.Y.U. J. Legis. Pub. Pol’y Quorum 52. Mr. Ferstendig has provided expert testimony interpreting the meaning and application of New York law and has been quoted as an expert on legal procedure in New York in The Washington Post. He was a 2015 and 2011 recipient of New York Law School’s Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award. A graduate of New York University School of Law, Mr. Ferstendig has lectured on civil practice issues for bar associations, the New York State Judicial Institute and LexisNexis. He is a member and past Chair of the CPLR Committee for the New York State Bar Association. Effective with the May, 2015 edition, Mr. Ferstendig became the Editor of the New York State Law Digest. He was selected by the New York State Board of Law Examiners as a faculty member presenting Civil Practice and Procedure to 2016 bar examination candidates as part of the New York law course. Portions of the text reprinted from the following permission: • Ferstendig, LexisNexis AnswerGuide New York Civil Litigation (2018 ed. Matthew Bender). Copyright 2016 Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. a LexisNexis company. All rights reserved. • LexisNexis® Expert Commentaries, David L. Ferstendig on Brill v. City of New York. Copyright 2007 Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. a LexisNexis company. All rights reserved. • Weinstein, Korn & Miller: New York Civil Practice: CPLR, Rel 162 – 169 (David L. Ferstendig ed., LexisNexis Matthew Bender 2d Ed.). Copyright 2018 Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. a LexisNexis company. All rights reserved. Table of Contents Table of 2018 CPLR Amendments ................................................................................................. 8 Table of 2017 CPLR Amendments ............................................................................................... 10 New Appellate Division Uniform Rules ....................................................................................... 11 New E-Filing Rules Applicable to Appellate Division................................................................. 11 STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS .................................................................................................... 12 CPLR 201.................................................................................................................................. 12 CPLR 202 - Borrowing Statute ................................................................................................. 14 Relation Back ............................................................................................................................ 20 CPLR 204 Stay ......................................................................................................................... 25 CPLR 205(a) - Six Month Extension ........................................................................................ 26 CPLR 207- Absence Toll .......................................................................................................... 30 CPLR 208 - Disability toll ........................................................................................................ 30 CPLR 212- Ten year statute of limitations ............................................................................... 31 CPLR 213 – Six-year statute of limitations .............................................................................. 32 CPLR 213-a - Residential rent overcharge ............................................................................... 43 CPLR 214 - Three year statute of limitations ........................................................................... 44 CPLR 214-a - Medical, dental or podiatric malpractice actions – two years and six months .. 52 CPLR 214-c- Discovery statute of limitations .......................................................................... 61 CPLR 214-c - Statute runs from date condition or symptom is discovered or reasonably should have been discovered, not the discovery of the specific cause of the condition or symptom .. 62 CPLR 215 - One year statute of limitations .............................................................................. 63 CPLR 217- Four month statute of limitations, “[u]nless a shorter time is provided in the law authorizing the proceeding” ...................................................................................................... 63 CPLR 217 - Article 78 proceeding appropriate where challenge is directed to the procedure followed in enacting, rather than the substance of, legislation ................................................. 69 CPLR 217 - 30-day statute of limitations applies ..................................................................... 70 CPLR 217 - Challenge to university's academic and administrative decision ......................... 70 CPLR 217 - No toll for plaintiff's invocation of defendant's voluntary student grievance procedure................................................................................................................................... 70 CPLR 217 - Gravamen of petition was that grading system was implemented in violation of lawful procedure, affected by an error of law, and arbitrary and capricious. ........................... 71 CPLR 217-a - One year and 90 days ........................................................................................ 72 JURISDICTION ........................................................................................................................... 77 Copyright © 2018 David L. 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CPLR 301.................................................................................................................................. 77 CPLR 302 - Specific Jurisdiction ............................................................................................. 85 COMMENCEMENT .................................................................................................................... 94 CPLR 304 - Commencing actions or special proceedings ........................................................ 95 SUMMONS .................................................................................................................................. 96 CPLR 305 - Summons .............................................................................................................. 96 SERVICE ...................................................................................................................................... 97 CPLR 306-b - Service of initiating pleadings ........................................................................... 97 CPLR 308 - Personal service on natural persons .................................................................... 103 CPLR 311 - Personal service on corporation or governmental subdivision ........................... 114 CPLR 312-a - Service by mail ................................................................................................ 115 DEFENDANT’S APPEARANCE .............................................................................................. 115 CPLR 320 - Defendant’s appearance ...................................................................................... 115 CPLR 321- Attorneys ............................................................................................................. 117 REMOVAL ................................................................................................................................