§ 206.20 Sanctions

If you're involved in a case in the Court of Claims, you need to know that the regular rules about sanctions still apply to you. These rules come from Part 130 of the Rules of the Chief Administrator of the Courts, and this section simply says those same rules cover cases in the Court of Claims too.

In practice, this means the court can penalize people for bad behavior during a case. This includes things like filing frivolous claims, making arguments with no legal basis, or acting in bad faith to delay the case or run up costs for the other side. If the court finds someone did this, it can order that person (or their lawyer) to pay a fine or cover the other side's legal costs.

The main point is that you can't use the Court of Claims as a place to avoid accountability. The same standards for honest and reasonable conduct that apply in other New York courts apply here as well.