DePaul v. Bleakley

—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for professional malpractice, the plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Donovan, J.), dated November 6, 1998, which, upon an order of the same court dated September 30, 1998, granting the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, dismissed the complaint.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

The doctrine of collateral estoppel, or issue preclusion, bars the relitigation of issues that have been actually litigated and necessarily decided in a prior action (see, Kaufman v Lilly & Co., 65 NY2d 449;…