Motorola Credit Corp. v Standard Chartered Bank, 24 N.Y.3d 149, ___ NYS2d ___, 2014 NY Slip Op 07199 [2014]
The Court here held that a common-law rule, the “separate entity” rule,
“prevents a judgment creditor from ordering a garnishee bank operating branches in New York to restrain a judgment debtor’s assets held in foreign branches of the bank.”