Robert Thoubboron v Donald Smith

Thoubboron v Smith 2004 NY Slip Op 04316 [8 AD3d 260] June 1, 2004 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Robert Thoubboron, Respondent,
v
Donald Smith et al., Defendants, and William Spain et al., Appellants.

—[*1]In an action to recover damages for libel, the defendants William Spain and Compton Spain appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Putnam County (Nicolai, J.), dated February 3, 2003, which denied their motion for an award of costs and to impose a sanction against the plaintiff and his attorneys pursuant to 22 NYCRR 130-1.1.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the appellants' motion for an award of costs and to impose a sanction against the plaintiff and his attorneys, as the conduct at issue was not frivolous conduct proscribed by 22 NYCRR 130-1.1 (see Mimoun v Zicherman, 293 AD2d 585 [2002]). Altman, J.P., Goldstein, Adams and Skelos, JJ., concur.