CPLR 2004 provides that a court "may extend the time fixed by any statute ... for doing any act, ... upon good cause shown," "[e]xcept where otherwise expressly prescribed by law." CPLR 3218 does not expressly prescribe that the time to file a defendant's affidavit confessing judgment may not be extended (compare CPLR 201, with 5514[c]). Accordingly, upon finding that good cause was shown, the motion court properly granted plaintiff's motion for an extension...
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