Beirman v. Macaluso

— Judgment unanimously affirmed, without costs. Memorandum: Petitioners, former clients of respondent attorney, brought this CPLR article 78 proceeding to compel him to file their divorce decrees, to obtain class action certification for other unknown clients of respondent and to bar him from recovering unpaid fees for his services (see Matter of Kennedy v Macaluso, 86 AD2d 775, affd 56 NY2d 630). Special Term denied petitioners’ class action certification, and it denied their request that the court declare that respondent attorney had abandoned petitioners’ cases and therefore was foreclosed…