ALBANY – A New York bank may not be compelled to garnish the funds of a debtor that are being held in accounts of the bank’s own foreign branches, a divided Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
The court’s 5-2 determination affirmed the state’s “separate entity” rule, which the majority said is crucial to New York’s banking industry and to retaining its place of “preeminence in global financial affairs.”
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