What is an in limine motion? In New York, there is no statutory authority that authorizes a party to make a motion in limine.

The late professor David Siegel observed that New York has no explicit definition of a motion in limine. He wrote that it is “generally understood to be a pretrial motion to preclude testimony on a given subject or the introduction into evidence of a particular item.“ (126 Siegel’s Prac. Rev. 2, August 2002, General Practice, “In Limine” Motions.)