189 A.D.2d 703 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1993
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Beatrice Shainswit, J.) entered December 2, 1991, which denied defendants’ motion pursuant to CPLR 5015 to vacate a judgment entered September 8, 1989 after a determination that two Pennsylvania judgments were entitled to full faith and credit, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The Pennsylvania courts having ruled on the arguments raised herein (see, Fiore v Oakwood Plaza Shopping Ctr., 401 Pa Super, 446, 585 A2d 1012), and the courts of New York having previously reviewed the procedures of the Pennsylvania courts and determined that they were entitled to full faith and credit (Fiore v Oakwood Plaza Shopping Ctr., 164 AD2d 737, affd 78 NY2d 572, cert denied — US —, 113 S Ct 75), defendants are barred by the doctrines of res judicata and