Initially, we find that the motion court properly denied plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment on the Labor Law § 240 (1) cause of action, albeit for the reasons it initially adopted, and then rejected, on reargument. Labor Law § 240 (1), commonly referred to as the Scaffold Law, provides, in pertinent part, that: "All contractors and owners and their agents . . . in the erection, demolition, repairing, altering, painting, cleaning or pointing of a building or...
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