Title: Amalgamated Bank v Helmsley-Spear, Inc.

State: new-york

Issuer: New York Appellate Court

Document:

Amalgamated Bank v Helmsley-Spear, Inc.

2015 NY Slip Op 05510

Decided on June 25, 2015

Court of Appeals

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided on June 25, 2015

No. 105 

[*1]Amalgamated Bank, Respondent,
vHelmsley-Spear, Inc., Defendant, Schneider & Schneider, Inc., et al., Appellants.


Christopher J. Sullivan, for appellants.
Tyler J. Kandel, for respondent.


MEMORANDUM:
The order of the Appellate Division, insofar as appealed from, should be affirmed, with costs.
The intervenors lacked standing to bring a motion to vacate the default judgment. [*2]"To seek relief from a judgment or order, all that is necessary is that some legitimate interest of the moving party will be served and that judicial assistance will avoid injustice" (Oppenheimer v Westcott, 47 NY2d 595, 602 [1979] [internal quotation marks and citation omitted]). Here, however, the intervenors did not meet the second prong of that test because they failed to identify any facts that give rise to a claim that injustice of any kind would be avoided by vacating the judgment (cf. Bond v Giebel, 101 AD3d 1340, 1342-1343 [3d Dept 2012], appeal dismissed, lv dismissed 21 NY3d 884 [2013]; Lane v Lane, 175 AD2d 103, 105-106 [2d Dept 1991]).
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Order, insofar as appealed from, affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum. Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Read, Pigott, Rivera, Abdus-Salaam, Stein and Fahey concur.
Decided June 25, 2015