Defendant's challenge to the validity of the chain of assignments through which plaintiff acquired the Connecticut judgment is not an impermissible collateral attack on the judgment, since it challenges not the merits of the judgment but plaintiff's standing to file the judgment in New York. It therefore is reviewable by New York courts (see Siegel, Practice Commentaries, McKinney's Cons Laws of NY, Book 7B, CPLR C5402:2 ["Since New York ... is just lending its judiciary...
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