The corporate plaintiff sought leave to be represented by a non-lawyer in its action against its former landlords.
The defendants brought a cross-motion to dismiss the action because the plaintiff failed to appoint counsel after its previous lawyers were removed from the record.
The court dismissed the plaintiff's motion, finding the proposed non-lawyer representative unfit due to his lack of capability and his reprehensible, anti-Semitic statements.
The court granted the defendants' cross-motion, dismissing the action, and awarded the defendants $65,000 in costs on a substantial indemnity basis to sanction the proposed representative's egregious conduct.
