Opinion
2014-03-6
Resat KELES, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. Zvi GALIL, et al., Defendants–Respondents. Resat Keles, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. Alan Brinkley, et al., Defendants–Respondents. Resat Keles, Plaintiff–Appellant, v. Lee Bollinger, et al., Defendants–Respondents.
Resat Keles, appellant pro se. Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP, New York (Robert D. Kaplan of counsel), for respondents.
Resat Keles, appellant pro se. Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP, New York (Robert D. Kaplan of counsel), for respondents.
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Friedman, J.), entered January 13, 2012, which granted defendants' motions to dismiss the three actions with prejudice, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Because these three actions assert claims that arise from the same transactions involved in plaintiff's 2008 action against some of these same defendants ( see 74 A.D.3d 435, 903 N.Y.S.2d 18 [1st Dept.2010],lv. denied16 N.Y.3d 890, 924 N.Y.S.2d 319, 948 N.E.2d 925 [2011],cert. denied––– U.S. ––––, 132 S.Ct. 255, 181 L.Ed.2d 148 [2011] ), the prior dismissal of that action acts as a bar to the instant claims under the doctrine of res judicata ( see O'Brien v. City of Syracuse, 54 N.Y.2d 353, 357, 445 N.Y.S.2d 687, 429 N.E.2d 1158 [1981]; UBS Sec. LLC v. Highland Capital Mgt., L.P., 86 A.D.3d 469, 473–474, 927 N.Y.S.2d 59 [1st Dept.2011] [doctrine of res judicata extends to parties and their privies] ). SAXE, J.P., MOSKOWITZ, DeGRASSE, FEINMAN, CLARK, JJ., concur.