The IAS Court properly invoked its power to designate "one of its judges or a referee [to] supervise all or part of [the] disclosure procedure" (CPLR 3104 [a]), but erred in appointing as Referee a private attorney to whom all the parties did not consent. CPLR 3104 (b) provides that a court-employed "judicial hearing officer may be designated as a Referee under this section, or the court may permit all of the parties in an action to stipulate that a named attorney may act...
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