Case Name: Amalgamated Bank, Respondent, v. Helmsley-Spear, Inc., Defendant, and Schneider & Schneider, Inc., et al., Intervenors-Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2015-06-25
Citations: 25 N.Y.3d 1098
Docket Number: 
Parties: Amalgamated Bank, Respondent, v Helmsley-Spear, Inc., Defendant, and Schneider & Schneider, Inc., et al., Intervenors-Appellants.
Judges: Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Read, Pigott, Rivera, Abdus-Salaam, Stein and Fahey concur.
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 25
Pages: 1098–1100

Head Matter:
[35 NE3d 480, 14 NYS3d 312]
Amalgamated Bank, Respondent, v Helmsley-Spear, Inc., Defendant, and Schneider & Schneider, Inc., et al., Intervenors-Appellants.
Argued June 1, 2015;
decided June 25, 2015
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Herrick, Feinstein LLP, New York City (Christopher J. Sullivan, William R. Fried and Marisa A. Leto of counsel), for intervenors-appellants.
Emmet, Marvin & Martin, LLP, New York City (Tyler J. Rondel and Mordecai Geisler of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
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. "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]).
Chief Judge Lippman and Judges Read, Pigott, Rivera, Abdus-Salaam, Stein and Fahey concur.
Order, insofar as appealed from, affirmed, with costs, in a memorandum.