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The Basics The plaintiff files a complaint to initiate a lawsuit. The defendant files an answer to the complaint. The judge will issue a scheduling order laying out a timeline for important dates and deadlines, including when the trial will take place. The parties engage in discovery.
After a summons with notice is served, the defendant will demand that the plaintiff serve a complaint. The plaintiff must then have the complaint served within 20 days after being served with the demand, or the case may be dismissed.
Commencing an Action A suit is commenced by the purchase of an index number in the City Court Clerks Office. Once an index number has been purchased, the litigant has 120 days to serve the summons and complaint.
If the defendant has waived their right to answer on an Affidavit of Defendant, then issue is joined on the NYS UD-13 form. This means that the plaintiff has presented all of their evidence and the defendant has not presented any evidence.
A form that is filed in New York state court and served on all parties confirming that the parties have completed necessary discovery proceedings and the case is trial ready (CPLR 3402(a)). It is the paper that gets the case on the courts trial calendar.
From time to time, the Administrative Judge may assign groups of non-jury cases in which a note of issue has been filed and that have not yet been scheduled for trial to a Blockbuster calendar before her or her designees for mediation. If the cases are not there resolved, they will be assigned for trial.
Practi- tioners use notices to admit to get their adversary to admit matters not in dispute: the genuineness of writings, or correctness or fairness of any photo- graphs or of the truth of any matters of fact.2 For this column, adversary is used to distinguish the party seeking a notice to admit (the seeking party)
Within 20 days after service of a note of issue and certificate of readiness, any party to the action or special proceeding may move to vacate the note of issue, upon affidavit showing in what respects the case is not ready for trial, and the court may vacate the note of issue if it appears that a material fact in the