Order unanimously reversed on the law with
Memorandum:
Supreme Court erred in granting defendant's motion to vacate and set aside the parties' stipulation. "Unless public policy is violated, the parties are free to chart their own procedural course, and `"may fashion the basis upon which a particular controversy will be resolved"' (Mitchell v New York Hosp.,
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