| Metropolitan Plaza WP, LLC v Goetz Fitzpatrick, LLP |
| 2015 NY Slip Op 02416 [126 AD3d 597] |
| March 24, 2015 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| Metropolitan Plaza WP, LLC, Formerly Known as
Ridgemour Meyer Properties, LLC, et al., Appellants, v Goetz Fitzpatrick, LLP, et al., Respondents. |
Andrew L. Bluestone, New York, for appellants.
Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, New York (Thomas A. Leghorn of counsel), for respondents.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Louis B. York, J.), entered January 17, 2014, dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The motion court correctly gave collateral estoppel effect to the rulings of the bankruptcy court in a prior proceeding finding deceit and other misconduct by plaintiffs, as well as defendants, and dismissed the complaint pursuant to the doctrine of in pari delicto (see Kirschner v KPMG LLP, 15 NY3d 446, 464 [2010]).
We have considered plaintiffs' remaining contentions and find them unavailing. Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Friedman, Sweeny, Gische and Kapnick, JJ.