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Carmen planned an adverse-inference request targeting Karras's withheld text messages. Using the precedent-cases memo (research/precedent-cases-memo.md), the hearing-prep outline (notes/hearing-prep-outline.md), and the opposing discovery correspondence (correspondence/opposing/ortega-discovery-correspondence.md): (a) What is the full citation of the Second Department case Carmen identified as the legal basis for that adverse-inference request? (b) In which lettered section of the hearing-prep outline does Carmen note she would have a Westlaw printout of this case 'ready for the bench'? (c) What did Karras's counsel claim happened to the text messages that made them unavailable?

Gold answer

(a) Schein v. Powerplay Builders, LLC, 178 AD3d 1102 (2d Dep't 2019). (b) Section H of the hearing-prep outline. (c) Ortega claimed Karras follows a 'standard phone-rotation policy' (Karras's phrase) — a roughly 60-day rolling clearing of text-message threads, meaning historical messages predating that window would have been deleted as part of routine cycle. Ortega ultimately produced a sworn affidavit (executed 2026-03-18) attesting that after a search of Karras's iPhone 13 and iCloud Messages backup, no responsive text messages exist within the 2025-11-01 through 2026-01-22 discovery window beyond what Park had already produced informally.

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agent_memory/correspondence/client/status-updates-park.md:1:# Park v. Karras — Weekly Status Updates Compilation, Matter OL-2026-0019
agent_memory/correspondence/client/status-updates-park.md:19:**Engagement formalities.** Retainer agreem…

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11:NY authority for the five theories in *Park v. Karras*: (i) breach of contract and implied warranty of workmanlike performance; (ii) unenforceability of the alleged $4,500 oral change order under GBL §771; (iii) NYC Construction Code violations (Electrical, Mechanical) and the non-delegable duty doctrine; (iv) GBL §349 deceptive practices with statutory fee-shifting; and (v) small-claims-part a…

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174:8. **Adverse-inference setup.** Declined to produce texts from 2025-11-01 to 2026-01-31? — yes. Still have them? — concedes "I don't know" or "deleted"; either helps us.
216:One-page written request, citing **Schein v. Powerplay Builders** (2nd Dept. 2019): a party's unjustified refusal to produce relevant electronic communications in its possession permits — though does not require — an infer…

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5:This file collects the discovery cover letters, the meet-and-confer chain over Karras's text-message refusal, and the brief logistical exchange leading up to (but not including) Ortega's 2026-03-13 settlement offer. The substantive offer and Wendell's response live in file 09 (settlement-offer-exchange); see also 22, 23, 24. The hearing-prep adverse-inference workup lives in 28.
26:We proceed in…

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### Case 3 — *Persaud v. NYC Refit LLC*, 2019 NY Slip Op 50217(U) (Civ Ct Queens Co. 2019)

**Citation:** *Persaud v. NYC Refit LLC*, 63 Misc 3d 1216(A), 2019 NY Slip Op 50217(U) (Civ Ct Queens Co. 2019) (table).

**Court / Year:** Civil Court, Queens County, 2019. Hon. T. Adamopoulos.

**Holding:** A contractor's failure to vent a range hood to the building exterior — instead venting into an adja…

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2. **Workmanlike-performance breach.**
   - "Aldous Bremer's measurements at Tab 4 — half-inch off-level cabinets, six loose tiles, cracked grout, exposed range-hood duct, non-GFCI outlet — are unrebutted in any writing or expert report."
   - "Karras's own admission that he is a professional contractor and that he knew the code makes the breach a knowing one."
   - Industry standard via Tab 13.
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280 Garfield Place, Brooklyn NY 11215

Re: *Park v. Karras*, Index SC-002847-26/KI — Defendant's Responses to Plaintiff's First Set of Document Requests and Interrogatories

Dear Carmen,

Enclosed please find Defendant Stefan Karras's responses to Plaintiff's First Set of Document Requests (Items 1–11) and First Set of Interrogatories (Nos. 1–5). The full responses, with attached productions, are …

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—
Carmen Ostrowski, Esq. | Ostrowski Legal PLLC | NY Bar #4827193
280 Garfield Place, Brooklyn NY 11215
*"We are made to persist. That is how we find out who we are." — Tobias Wolff*

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## Document 4 — Ortega email, 2026-03-10 11:42

**From:** Felipe Ortega
**To:** Carmen Ostrowski
**Date:** Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
**Subject:** Re: Park v. Karras — friendly nudge re text messages 11/01–01…

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Answer

(a) The case was *Schein v. Powerplay Builders, LLC*, 178 AD3d 1102, 116 NYS3d 296 (2d Dep’t 2019). See [precedent-cases-memo.md](/Users/prasanna/Documents/supermemoryai/supermemoryfs/.scratch/eval/eval/workspace/fs/dp_004/agent_memory/research/precedent-cases-memo.md:72). (b) Section **H**, titled **“ADVERSE-INFERENCE REQUEST (written; tendered at close of evidence)”**. See [hearing-prep-outline.md](/Users/prasanna/Documents/supermemoryai/supermemoryfs/.scratch/eval/eval/workspace/fs/dp_004/ag…

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notes/hearing-prep-outline.md:3:**Hearing-Prep Outline (Park v. Karras)**
notes/hearing-prep-outline.md:32:1. **Contract.** Signed 2025-11-04 between Wendell Park and Karras Custom Builders LLC. Total contract price $24,500. Scope: cabinet replacement (custom shaker maple), quartz countertops, porcelain floor tile, electrical updates including code-mandated GFCI outlets near the sink. Start 2025-1…

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    72	### Case 4 — *Schein v. Powerplay Builders, LLC*, 178 AD3d 1102 (2d Dep't 2019)
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    74	**Citation:** *Schein v. Powerplay Builders, LLC*, 178 AD3d 1102, 116 NYS3d 296 (2d Dep't 2019).
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    76	**Court / Year:** Appellate Division, Second Department, 2019. On appeal from the Appellate Term, 9th & 10th Judicial Districts.
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    78	**Holding:** The "substantial justice" sta…

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   201	4. **Substantial-justice principle of CCA §1804.**
   202	   - Small-claims part is governed by substantial justice rather than the rules of evidence.
   203	   - We have offered the court contemporaneous photos, the contractor's own license, an independent estimate, a neighbor's contemporaneous journal, and a signed contract.
   204	   - The defense has offered an oral claim with n…

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   100	**To:** Carmen Ostrowski
   101	**Date:** Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
   102	**Subject:** Re: Park v. Karras — friendly nudge re text messages 11/01–01/22
   103	
   104	Carmen,
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   106	Acknowledged and appreciated. To telegraph: my client's position, which I am still pressure-testing with him, is that **no relevant text messages exist beyond what Mr. Park has already produced info…

Answer

(a) *Schein v. Powerplay Builders, LLC*, 178 AD3d 1102, 116 NYS3d 296 (2d Dep’t 2019). (b) Section H: “ADVERSE-INFERENCE REQUEST.” (c) Karras’s counsel claimed Stefan routinely cleared text-message threads on a roughly 60-day rolling basis under his “standard phone-rotation policy,” so any older messages were deleted in that routine cycle and were not recoverable from the device. Counsel also claimed no relevant texts existed beyond what Park had already produced.

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