The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that a claimant aiming to sue a municipality does not have the right to witness a co-claimant’s prefiling hearing over the city’s objection.

The high court, in a unanimous opinion released Thursday, said if lawmakers intended to allow co-claimants in those circumstances to observe each other’s hearings under General Municipal Law Section 50-h, they would have said that in the statute.

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