Sackett v Estate of Konigsberg
2010 NY Slip Op 04765 [74 AD3d 777]
June 1, 2010
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, August 25, 2010


Evelyn Sackett, Appellant,
v
Estate of Alvin Konigsberg,Deceased, et al., Respondents.

[*1]Evelyn Sackett, Brooklyn, N.Y., appellant pro se.

Reppert Kelly, LLC, New York, N.Y. (Christopher P. Kelly of counsel), forrespondents.

In an action to recover damages for sexual harassment and retaliatory discharge in violationof Administrative Code of the City of New York § 8-107, the plaintiff appeals from (1) anorder of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Hinds-Radix, J.), dated March 17, 2008, and (2) ajudgment of the same court (Ambrosio, J.), dated December 18, 2008, which, upon the grantingof the defendants' motion pursuant to CPLR 3025 to strike the amended complaint, and thegranting of the defendants' oral application, made at the close of the plaintiff's evidence, pursuantto CPLR 4401 for judgment as a matter of law, dismissed the complaint.

Ordered that the appeal from the order dated March 17, 2008, is dismissed; and it is further,

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed; and it is further,

Ordered that one bill of costs is awarded to the defendants.

Contrary to the plaintiff's contention, the Supreme Court properly granted the defendants'motion to strike the amended complaint based upon her failure to comply with CPLR 3025. Therecord indicates that the plaintiff served her amended complaint well beyond the period withinwhich an amended pleading may be served as of right (see CPLR 3025 [a]) without firstobtaining leave of the court or the stipulation of the parties (see Nikolic v Federation Empl. & Guidance Serv., Inc., 18 AD3d522, 524 [2005]).

The appeal from the order dated March 17, 2008, must be dismissed as abandoned, as theplaintiff does not seek in her brief reversal or modification of any portion of the order (see Sirma v Beach, 59 AD3d 611,614 [2009]; Bibas v Bibas, 58AD3d 586, 587 [2009]).

The plaintiff's remaining contentions are without merit. Dillon, J.P., Santucci, Hall and Lott,JJ., concur.


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