Case Name: Joanne Catania, Respondent, v. Anthony J. DeCintio, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Andrew J. Schatkin, Third-Party Defendant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2004-07-12
Citations: 9 A.D.3d 378
Docket Number: 
Parties: Joanne Catania, Respondent, v Anthony J. DeCintio, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Andrew J. Schatkin, Third-Party Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 378–379

Head Matter:
Joanne Catania, Respondent, v Anthony J. DeCintio, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant. Andrew J. Schatkin, Third-Party Defendant.
[779 NYS2d 362]

Opinion:
In an action to recover damages for legal malpractice, the defendant appeals (1) , as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Cohalan, J.), entered October 21, 2002, as directed the entry of a judgment in favor of the plaintiff upon his failure to attend a compliance conference and (2) from a judgment of the same court entered June 26, 2003, which, upon the order, is in favor of the plaintiff and against him.
Ordered that the appeals are dismissed, without costs or disbursements.
The appeal from the intermediate order must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of judgment in the action (see Matter of Aho, 39 NY2d 241, 248 [1976]).
The appeal from the judgment must be dismissed as no appeal lies from a judgment entered upon the default of the appealing party (see Payne v Payne, 4 AD3d 512 [2004]). Altman, J.P., Goldstein, Schmidt, Cozier and Skelos, JJ., concur.