Legal Opinion

Levin v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 14, 2016No. 650562/11PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Eileen Bransten, J.), entered September 17, 2015, which denied proposed intervenors Darek Jura and Leah Hanes’s motion to intervene in this class action, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The record amply supports the IAS court’s denial of the motion for intervention, both with respect to intervention as of right under CPLR 1012 and permissive intervention under CPLR 1013. As this Court has held, “Distinctions between intervention as of right and discretionary intervention are no longer sharply applied” (Yuppie Puppy Pet Prods., Inc. v Street Smart…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Yuppie Puppy Pet Products, Inc. v. Street Smart Realty, LLCAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
  2. RKH Holding Corp. v. 207 Second Ave. Realty Corp.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997

3Cited by7 opinions

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  3. Papageorgiou v. Consolidated Edison Co. of N.Y., Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2023
  4. Greenpoint Mtge. Funding, Inc. v. EhrenthalAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2026
  5. Matter of Miller v. State of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2026

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