BRANDES v. NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL


1 A.D.3d 550 (2003)

767 N.Y.S.2d 666

PAMELA BRANDES, Appellant, v. NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.

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

November 24, 2003.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

A plaintiff's motion to compel discovery should be denied where, as here, the document demands are overly broad, vexatious, and tend to confuse, rather than sharpen, the central issue of negligence (see Harrison v Bayley Seton Hosp., 219 A.D.2d 584 [1995]). Here, the plaintiff's vast categorical demands for the bylaws of the hospital and its medical staff, as well as the rules...

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