The action, which was commenced in 1989, was properly dismissed upon a finding that plaintiff willfully failed to comply with the disclosure deadlines in the preliminary conference order of April 7, 2000 (CPLR 3126). Such willfulness can be inferred from a record showing that the preliminary conference order had extended a deadline for the filing of a note of issue that was set in a 90-day notice given by the court itself, that plaintiffs did not promptly object to the disclosure...
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