Ginsburg Dev. Cos., LLC v Carbone

Ginsburg Dev. Cos., LLC v Carbone 2012 NY Slip Op 07954 Decided on November 21, 2012 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on November 21, 2012
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKAPPELLATE DIVISION : SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
PETER B. SKELOS, J.P.
THOMAS A. DICKERSON
L. PRISCILLA HALL
SHERI S. ROMAN, JJ.
2011-05343
(Index No. 17369/08)

[*1]Ginsburg Development Companies, LLC, respondent,

v

Donald J. Carbone, etc., et al., appellants (and a third-party action).




Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP, New York,
N.Y. (Thomas A. Leghorn and Cori Rosen of counsel), for
appellants.
Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP, New York,
N.Y. (Jonathan P. Vuotto and
Thomas P. Sheridan of counsel), for
respondent.


DECISION & ORDER

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for fraud, the defendants appeal from so much an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Loehr, J.), entered April 12, 2011, as denied their cross motion to disqualify nonparties Jonathan P. Vuotto and Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP, as counsel for the plaintiff in this action.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendants' cross motion to disqualify Jonathan P. Vuotto and his law firm, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP, as counsel for the plaintiff in this action (see Light v Light, 64 AD3d 633, 635; Hudson Val. Mar., Inc. v Town of Cortlandt, 54 AD3d 999, 1000-1001; see also Magnus v Sklover, 95 AD3d 837, 838).
SKELOS, J.P., DICKERSON, HALL and ROMAN, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court