VALENZA v. EMMELLE COUTIER, INC.


288 A.D.2d 114 (2001)

733 N.Y.S.2d 167

BIBBI G. VALENZA, Appellant-Respondent, v. EMMELLE COUTIER, INC., et al., Respondent-Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided November 20, 2001.


The IAS court, in granting defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, properly determined, based on plaintiff's manifest failure to report her income from defendants to the IRS, that plaintiff, who was fired from her employment with defendants, knew she was being paid "off-the-books" and thus, pursuant to an illegal contract. Since a party to an illegal contract cannot resort to a court of law for help in obtaining its enforcement, it follows that plaintiff...

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