After several adjournments at plaintiff's behest, plaintiff missed the motion court's final deadline of September 13, 2002 for submitting opposition papers. Those papers were ultimately submitted 3½ weeks later, on October 7. At the hearing on return of the motions, on October 10, counsel advised the court, for the first time, that the delay had been due to his client undergoing eye surgery. At that point, the excuse was untimely.
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