POINT XII
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NEITHER THE LOWER COURT NOR ANY PARTY TO AN ACTION CAN IGNORE
AND BYPASS THE RULES OF THE COURT'S REQUIREMENT THAT A CPLR 2221
MOTION IS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO REARGUE AND DISTURB A PRIOR
DECISION AND ORDER OF A PRIOR MOTION WHICH HAS BECOME THE LAW OF
THE CASE.
Both Plaintiff-Respondent and the Lower Court completely
ignored the law of the case doctrine which was binding at this
time as the Lower Court granted the Judgement For Foreclosure
and Sale that was based solely upon the contested and illegal
Amended Decision and Order (A - 19).
POINTS VII and VIII in this Brief have shown that the faxed
letter to the Lower Court by Plaintiff-Respondent was by all
means a true motion requesting relief from the holdings in
Original Decision and Order of April 27, 2007, (A - 25) by the
granting of the Amended Decision and Order (A - 19).
Defendants-Appellants cited for the Lower Court in their
Memorandum of Law on Point II (A - 396) and in their Affidavit
in Opposition (A - 382) the statute cite from 28 NY Jur Courts
and Judges Section 236 Generally the following:
"As a matter of policy, an attempt to avoid the binding
effect of a prior ruling should be accomplished by
reversal of such ruling upon an appeal, and not by a
coordinate tribunal's failure to follow it. The doctrine
of the law of the case articulates the sound policy that
once an issue is judicially determined, that should be
the end of the matter as far as judges and courts of
coordinate jurisdiction are concerned. When a court makes
determination in a case, that determination, if not
appealed from, becomes the ''law of the case'' and
controls when the question which led to it is again
presented in that same case. The decided issue becomes
binding not only on the parties, but on all other judges
of coordinate jurisdiction. Thus a court of coordinate
jurisdiction ordinarily should not disregard an earlier
decision on the same question in the same case."
"The law of the case doctrine applies to motions, so that
in the absence of a statutory exception and in order to
prevent vexatious and repeated applications on the same
point, a motion once fully heard and decided cannot be
revived again ... The doctrine of the law of the case
applies to various stages of the same litigation, ..."
Plaintiff-Respondent and the Lower Court were fully aware
that the law of the case doctrine had been violated, and that
this Appellate Court in order to uphold the doctrine should at
the very least void and vacate the Amended Decision and
Order (A - 19) as well as the reversal of the Judgement (A - 7)
being appealed herein.
Defendants-Appellants cited from 28 NY Jur 2d Courts and
Judges Section 245 Improper failure to follow doctrine that
states:
"When there is an appeal from an order which is found to
have been made in violation of the law of the case
doctrine, the appellate court may properly reverse it
for that reason alone, without regard to the merits, or
it may disagree with the substance of the subsequent
order and yet affirm it on appeal on the grounds that it
was made on the constraint of the law of the case doctrine."
Therefore as stated above, this Court should reverse the
Amended Decision and Order (A - 19), and at the very least allow
the Original Decision and Order of April 27, 2007 (A - 25) be
allowed to stand as the law of the case.
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