Case Name: BDO Seidman, LLP, Appellant, v. Joel Greenblatt et al., Defendants, and Spear Leeds & Kellogg et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2005-04-19
Citations: 17 A.D.3d 209
Docket Number: 
Parties: BDO Seidman, LLP, Appellant, v Joel Greenblatt et al., Defendants, and Spear Leeds & Kellogg et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 17
Pages: 209–209

Head Matter:
BDO Seidman, LLP, Appellant, v Joel Greenblatt et al., Defendants, and Spear Leeds & Kellogg et al., Respondents.
[794 NYS2d 13]

Opinion:
Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Gammerman, J.), entered January 22, 2004, dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, with one bill of costs.
The arbitration award apportioning fault between plaintiff and the fraud victims included the brokerage houses' share of responsibility as the victims' agents, and thus bars plaintiffs contribution claim against said defendants-respondents. Plaintiff is precluded from ascribing liability to them under a different theory from that claimed in arbitration (see Elliott Assoc., L.P. v Hayes, 14 AD3d 435 [2005]).
We have considered plaintiff's other contentions and find them unavailing. Concur—Buckley, P.J., Mazzarelli, Andrias, Saxe and Friedman, JJ.