IN RE: Sinclair Haberman (2011)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.

IN RE: Sinclair Haberman, et al., petitioners/ plaintiffs-respondents, v. Zoning Board of Appeals of City of Long Beach, et al., respondents/defendants-appellants, et al., respondent/defendant.

2010–04743 (Index No. 1138 /04)

Decided: June 14, 2011

REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P. ANITA R. FLORIO THOMAS A. DICKERSON RANDALL T. ENG, JJ.

Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., Garden City, N.Y. (Jeffrey G. Stark of counsel), and Corey E. Klein, Corporation Counsel, Long Beach, N.Y.), for respondents/defendants-appellants (one brief filed). Jaspan Schlesinger LLP, Garden City, N.Y. (Steven R. Schlesinger of counsel), Herrick Feinstein, New York, N.Y. (Scott Mollen of counsel), Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York, N.Y. (Victor A. Kovner and Lance Koonce of counsel), Duane Morris, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Thomas R. Newman of counsel), and Jacob Haberman, New York, N.Y., for petitioners/plaintiffs-respondents (one brief filed). Under the circumstances, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in granting the motion to disqualify the firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., as cocounsel for the respondents/defendants (see Kassis v Teacher's Ins. & Annuity Assn., 93 N.Y.2d 611;  Solow v W.R. Grace & Co., 83 N.Y.2d 303;  M.A.C. Duff, Inc. v ASMAC, LLC, 61 AD3d 828;  Columbus Const.   Co., Inc. v Petrillo Bldrs.   Supply Corp., 20 AD3d 383).