Court Opinion

ID: 5790184
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-12 18:08:02.944545+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:42:14.661841
License: Public Domain

*521The doctrine of collateral estoppel bars this malpractice action by plaintiff against the four attorneys who successively represented him in a federal diversity suit that was dismissed for plaintiff’s continuous and willful failure to comply with discovery orders, the district court having rejected his attempt to shift responsibility for the noncompliance to his attorneys (see Buechel v Bain, 97 NY2d 295, 303-304 [2001], cert denied 535 US 1096 [2002]). Concur—Tom, J.P., Saxe, Nardelli, Renwick and Freedman, JJ.