MEMORANDUM.
Order affirmed, without costs.
Defendants appeal from an order granting summary judgment for plaintiffs dismissing defendants' counterclaim, based upon a prior order of preclusion.
There appear to be different rules in the various departments as to whether a preclusion order, standing alone, warrants summary judgment. In the First Department, it has been held that summary judgment is not available based solely on a preclusion order (
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