The 20-day time limit prescribed by CPLR 7503 (c) for serving a petition to stay an arbitration is jurisdictional, and, absent special circumstances not present here, courts have no jurisdiction to consider an untimely application (see Matter of Metropolitan Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. [Coping],
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