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16-1670 

Buczek v. Tirone

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

SUMMARY ORDER

RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY 

ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF 

APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT=S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER 

IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN 

ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION ASUMMARY ORDER@). A PARTY CITING TO A SUMMARY 

ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL. 

1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 

2 held at the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of 

New York, on the 22nd 3 day of December, two thousand sixteen. 

4 

5 PRESENT: 

6 RALPH K. WINTER,

7 DENNIS JACOBS, 

8 JOSÉ A. CABRANES,

9 Circuit Judges. 

10 _____________________________________ 

11 

12 Deborah Ann Buczek, Real Party Interest 

13 Rule 17a SECURED PARTY Uniform 

14 Commercial Code FILING 

15 ACKNOWLEDGMENT NY DEPT. OF 

16 STATE 201405120259837/201405290292729, 

17 

18 Plaintiff-Appellant, 

19 

20 v. 16-1670 

21 

22 Gasper A. Tirone, Co-Trustees of Gasper 

23 A. Tirone and Elaine E. Trust U/A dated 

24 February 9, 2011, Elaine E. Tirone, 

25 Co-Trustees of Gasper A. Tirone and Elaine 

26 E. Trust U/A dated February 9, 2011, Steven 

27 W. Wells, Gasper A. Tirone, Trust, dated 

28 February 9, 2011, Elaine E. Tirone, Trust, 

29 dated February 9, 2011, Garry M. 
2 

1 Graber, Jason E. Markel, Michael E. Reyen, 

2 Craig T. Lutterbein, Gregory J. Gillette, 

3 

4 

5 Defendants-Appellees, 

6 

7 American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., Scott 

8 Janas, John E. Schmidt, Jr., Timothy J. 

9 Walker, Private Capacity, William F. 

10 Savino, Gilbert Reyes, Private Capacity, 

11 Gilbert Reyes, Private Capacity, 

12 Stanley Kwieciak, III, Esq., Brian D. Gwitt, 

13 Darryl J. Colosi, John Garbo, New York 

14 State Tax Department, Mrs. Gribble, 

15 Suzanne McFayden, Sam Maneaun, Wells 

16 Fargo Bank, 

17 

18 Defendants.*

19 _____________________________________ 

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21 FOR PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT: Deborah Ann Buczek, pro se, Derby, NY. 

22 

23 FOR DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES: Kevin Miles Kearney, Hodgson Russ LLP, 

24 Buffalo, NY. 

25 

26 Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New 

27 York (Skretny, J.). 

28 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND 

29 DECREED that the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED. 

30 Plaintiff-Appellant Deborah Ann Buczek, pro se, appeals from the district court’s 

31 judgment dismissing as res judicata her claims against defendants for allegedly obtaining a 

32 foreclosure judgment against her commercial property through fraud and violations of her 

33 constitutional rights. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural 

34 history of the case, and the issues on appeal. 

35 We review de novo a district court’s application of res judicata. Computer Assocs. Int’l v. 

36 Altai, Inc., 126 F.3d 365, 368 (2d Cir. 1997). When applying the doctrine, “a federal court must 

37 give to a state-court judgment the same preclusive effect as would be given that judgment under 

38 the law of the State in which the judgment was rendered.” Migra v. Warren City Sch. Dist. Bd. of 

 

* The Clerk of Court is respectfully directed to amend the official caption to conform 

with the above.
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1 Educ., 465 U.S. 75, 81 (1984); accord O’Connor v. Pierson, 568 F.3d 64, 69 (2d Cir. 2009). 

2 “New York law has adopted a ‘transactional approach’ to [res judicata]. ‘[O]nce a claim is 

3 brought to a final conclusion, all other claims arising out of the same transaction or series of 

4 transaction are barred . . . .’” McKithen v. Brown, 481 F.3d 89, 104 (2d Cir. 2007) (quoting 

5 Gargiul v. Tompkins, 790 F.2d 265, 269 (2d Cir. 1986); O’Brien v. City of Syracuse, 54 N.Y.2d 

6 353, 357 (1981)) (citations omitted). 

7 Here, upon de novo review of the record and the above principles, we conclude that the 

8 district court properly dismissed Buczek’s complaint. We therefore affirm for substantially the 

9 reasons stated by the district court in its thorough and well-reasoned April 25, 2016 decision and 

10 order. 

11 We have considered all of Buczek’s arguments and find them to be without merit. 

12 Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court. 

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14 FOR THE COURT: 

15 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk