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· 3/14/1994

Garcia v. New York City Housing Authority Police Department

Citations

  • 202 A.D.2d 471
  • 609 N.Y.S.2d 40
  • 1994 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 2404

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that some post-judgment orders can be final and appealable judgments if they function similarly to mandatory injunctions
  • explaining that turnover order that operates like a mandatory injunction—requiring transfer of property—is final and appealable
  • recognizing precedent barring use of turnover statute to determine parties’ and non- judgment debtors’ substantive rights
  • stating that portions of an order can be injunctive in nature and appealable, while other provisions of the same order can be interlocutory and unreviewable because they do not resemble injunctive relief
  • stating that portions of an order can be injunctive in nature and appealable, while other provisions of the same order can be interlocutory and unreviewable because they do not resemble injunctive relief
  • rejecting the argument that a non-party’s intervention in a turnover proceeding to protect its interests authorizes a court to adjudicate third-party rights

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