Legal Opinion
Strange v. Montefiore Hospital & Medical Center
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 10, 1983PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.
As we wrote in Barrett v Kasco Constr. Co. (56 NY2d 830, 831), procedurally indistinguishable from the case now before us, “although the prior judgment of Supreme Court *739does not specifically recite that it is ‘on the merits’, that judgment should be given res judicata effect in order to prevent the plaintiff from circumventing the preclusion decree (cf. Palmer v Fox, 28 AD2d 968, affd 22 NY2d 667).” CPLR 5013 does not require that the prior judgment contain the precise words “on the merits” in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Barrett v. Kasco Constr. Co., Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1982
- Palmer v. FoxNew York Court of Appeals · 1968
- Palmer v. FoxAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1967
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- National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Acusport, Inc.District Court, E.D. New York · 2003
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