| Mobarak v Mowad |
| 2008 NY Slip Op 07881 [55 AD3d 693] |
| October 14, 2008 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Mamdouh R. Mobarak, Respondent, v Mohamed Mowad et al.,Appellants, et al., Defendant. |
—[*1] Robinson Brog Leinwand Greene Genovese & Gluck, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Daniel Zohny ofcounsel), for respondent.
In a shareholder's derivative action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of fiduciary duty,fraud, unjust enrichment, and breach of contract, the defendants Mohamed Mowad, Sandy Check,Michael Hatzidakis, Joseph Rozen, Arnon Sadok, Ahmed Moharrem, Chi Yuen Lo, Khaled Maher,and Regal Insurance Brokerage, Inc., appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of theSupreme Court, Kings County (Silverman, J.), dated July 18, 2007, as denied that branch of theirmotion which was for a protective order and granted that branch of the plaintiff's cross motion whichwas to compel them to comply with his discovery demands.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The Supreme Court incorrectly concluded that because it had denied an earlier motion to dismissthe complaint, the doctrine of the law of the case precluded granting that branch of the appellants'motion which was for a protective order (seeThompson v Lamprecht Transp., 39 AD3d 846, 847 [2007]; Kidd v Delta FundingCorp., 299 AD2d 457 [2002]; Kaplan v Queens Optometric Assoc., 293 AD2d 449[2002]; Del Castillo v Bayley Seton Hosp., 232 AD2d 602, 603-604 [1996]). Nevertheless,on the merits, the denial of that branch of the appellants' motion which was for a protective order andthe grant of that branch of the plaintiff's cross motion which was to compel the appellants to complywith his discovery demands was a provident exercise of discretion (see Gilman & Ciocia, Inc. v [*2]Walsh, 45AD3d 531 [2007]).
We do not reach the appellants' contention concerning that branch of their motion which was tocompel the plaintiff to respond to their discovery demands. That branch of the motion was notaddressed by the Supreme Court in the order appealed from and remains pending and undecided (see Magriples v Tekelch, 53 AD3d532 [2008]; Moncrief v DiChiaro,52 AD3d 789, 790 [2008]; Katz v Katz, 68 AD2d 536, 543 [1979]).
The appellants' remaining contention is not properly before us as it is raised for the first time onappeal (see Albanese v Village ofFreeport, 52 AD3d 550, 551 [2008]). Lifson, J.P., Ritter, Miller and Balkin, JJ., concur.