The Metropolitan Transportation Authority withheld discovery information, not only from a plaintiff allegedly injured by an MTA police vehicle but also from its own in-house lawyers, an appellate panel has found in ordering the agency to pay a $10,000 sanction.
In a brief order Thursday, the Appellate Division, First Department, said the authority’s “willful and contumacious behavior was a significant waste of limited and strained judicial resources” and imposed a sanction of $10,000. It declined to sanction the MTA’s then in-house counsel, Neil Redmond, “as the record indicates that the authority withheld the available information from its” attorney as well.
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