Opinion
05-11-2016
James BEHRINGER, respondent, v. 19407 LINDEN, LLC, also known as 194–07 Linden, LLC, et al., defendants, Ali Abdullah Sadiq, et al., appellants.
Roberto L. Pagan Lopez, Long Island City, N.Y., for appellants. Robert Lee Aitken (Law Offices of Michelle S. Russo, P.C., Port Washington, N.Y., of counsel), for respondent.
Roberto L. Pagan Lopez, Long Island City, N.Y., for appellants. Robert Lee Aitken (Law Offices of Michelle S. Russo, P.C., Port Washington, N.Y., of counsel), for respondent.
Opinion In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the defendants Ali Abdullah Sadiq and Ellen Sadiq appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Raffaele, J.), entered June 16, 2015, which denied their motion pursuant to CPLR 5015(a), in effect, to vacate an order of the same court (Rios, J.) entered January 14, 2010, granting the plaintiff's motion, inter alia, for summary judgment on the complaint and to appoint a referee to compute the amount due to the plaintiff, and pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(3) to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against them.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
Contrary to the appellants' contention, “lack of standing is not a defect that deprives a court of subject matter jurisdiction for purposes of CPLR 5015(a)(4) ” (U.S. Bank, N.A. v. Peters, 127 A.D.3d 742, 743, 9 N.Y.S.3d 58 ; see Lacks v. Lacks, 41 N.Y.2d 71, 74–75, 390 N.Y.S.2d 875, 359 N.E.2d 384 ; Wells Fargo, N.A. v. Levin, 101 A.D.3d 1519, 1521, 958 N.Y.S.2d 227 ). Accordingly, that branch of the appellants' motion which was pursuant to CPLR 5015(a)(4) was properly denied.
The appellants' request for vacatur under CPLR 5015(a)(3) was also properly denied (see U.S. Bank N.A. v. Smith, 132 A.D.3d 848, 851, 19 N.Y.S.3d 62 ; New Century Mtge. Corp. v. Corriette, 117 A.D.3d 1011, 1012, 986 N.Y.S.2d 560 ; Bank of N.Y. v. Stradford, 55 A.D.3d 765, 765–766, 869 N.Y.S.2d 554 ).
The appellants' remaining contentions either are without merit or need not be reached in light of our determination.
MASTRO, J.P., CHAMBERS, ROMAN and MALTESE, JJ., concur.