In Gloria Vanderbilt Home Furnishings, Inc. v. Cooper, 215 A.D.2d 162, the Appellate Division, First Department held that the trial court had properly determined that the findings and conclusions of the Hearing Panel of the First Department's Departmental Disciplinary Committee with respect to defendant Cooper's former attorney, who was a shareholder in the plaintiff corporation, were not entitled to preclusive effect with respect to the action before the court in which the plaintiff corporation sought damages and an injunction enjoining defendants, inter alia, from tortiously interfering with its contractual relations with its licensees, because defendants had failed to establish an identity of issue which had necessarily been decided in the prior action and that there was a full and fair opportunity for plaintiff to contest the decision now claimed to be controlling. (Id. at 162-163.)