Cadles of Grassy Meadows II, L.L.C. v. Lapidus

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara R. Kapnick, J.), entered October 6, 2011, which, inter alia, denied defendant Lapidus’s (defendant) motion, pursuant to CPLR 5240, for a protective order restraining plaintiff from further efforts to enforce a judgment rendered in the State of Connecticut and filed in New York pursuant to CPLR 5402, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

Defendant’s challenge to the validity of the chain of assignments through which plaintiff acquired the Connecticut judgment is not an impermissible collateral attack on the judgment, since it challenges not the merits…