GOTTWALD v. SEBERT

Index No. 653118/14. Appeal No. 15733. Case No. 2021-04391.

204 A.D.3d 495 (2022)

164 N.Y.S.3d 458

2022 NY Slip Op 02492

Lukasz Gottwald, Professionally Known as Dr. Luke, et al., Respondents-Appellants, v. Kesha Rose Sebert, Professionally Known as Kesha, Appellant-Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided April 14, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O'Melveny & Myers LLP, New York ( Anton Metlitsky , of counsel) for appellant-respondent.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, New York ( Jeffrey M. Movit , of counsel) for respondents-appellants.

Concur—Acosta, P.J., Kern, González, Shulman, JJ.


The court providently exercised its discretion in precluding the privileged communication that defendants sought to introduce after four years of extensive discovery and two years after discovery had closed. A showing of willful and contumacious behavior was not required (see Metropolitan Bridge & Scaffolds Corp. v New York City Hous. Auth., 168 A.D.3d 569, 572 [1st Dept 2019]; Vandashield Ltd v Isaacson,

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