Case Name: In the Matter of Jack Ferranti, Appellant, v. New York City Property Clerk's Office, Respondent; In the Matter of Jack Ferranti, Appellant, v. New York City Police Department, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2004-04-01
Citations: 6 A.D.3d 178
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Jack Ferranti, Appellant, v New York City Property Clerk’s Office, Respondent. In the Matter of Jack Ferranti, Appellant, v New York City Police Department, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 178–179

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Jack Ferranti, Appellant, v New York City Property Clerk’s Office, Respondent. In the Matter of Jack Ferranti, Appellant, v New York City Police Department, Respondent.
[773 NYS2d 876]

Opinion:
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Kibbie Payne, J.), entered February 20, 2003, dismissing the petitions in petitioner's two consolidated proceedings, as barred by res judicata, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The dismissal on statute of limitations grounds of a prior petition seeking the same relief against essentially the same parties is sufficiently close to being on the merits to bar the instant proceedings on the ground of res judicata (see Smith v Russell Sage Coll., 54 NY2d 185, 194 [1981]; Marinelli Assoc, v Helmsley-Noyes Co., 265 AD2d 1, 4-5 [2000]). Petitioner's argument about the court's reference to "newly discovered evidence" is entirely without merit. Concur—Nardelli, J.P., Tom, Ellerin, Williams and Lerner, JJ.