Legal Opinion
Spectris Inc. v. 1997 Milton B. Hollander Family Trust
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 28, 2016No. 653706/13 954 953PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Orders, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered July 28, 2014, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants’ motion to dismiss the first amended complaint, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The motion court correctly concluded that a judgment in a prior action in Delaware between privies of the parties here does not bar plaintiff’s action under the doctrine of res judicata. The res judicata effect of a judgment is determined by the law of the rendering jurisdiction (see Bruno v Bruno, 83 AD3d 165, 169 [1st Dept 2011], lv denied 18 NY3d…
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