Lau v. Capital One Bank

Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Marilyn Shafer, J.), entered October 30, 2008, which denied plaintiffs motion to transfer a related Civil Court action to Supreme Court and granted the motion of defendants Forster & Garbus, Ronald Forster, Mark Garbus and Brandi E Klineberg to dismiss the amended complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiffs claims against the defendants named in both the Civil Court and Supreme Court actions are barred by the doctrine of res judicata (see Gramatan Home Invs. Corp. v Lopez, 46 NY2d 481, 485 [1979]), notwithstanding that some of the claims…