Opinion
February 23, 2000
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen Crane, J.), entered August 23, 1999, which denied the proposed intervenors' motion to intervene as untimely, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Brian J. Shoot, for Plaintiff-Respondent.
Marjorie Press Lindbloom, for Defendants-Respondents.
Peter A. Mahler, for Proposed Intervenors-Plaintiffs-Appellants.
ROSENBERGER, J.P., NARDELLI, MAZZARELLI, WALLACH, RUBIN, JJ.
The IAS court properly exercised its discretion in denying the motion to intervene as untimely since the proposed intervenors submitted their motion eight months after the IAS court entered its order approving the Master Settlement Agreement and more than a month after this Court affirmed that order (see, CPLR 1012; 1013).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.