The Connecticut appeal in Tyler v. Tyler involved two brothers who were feuding over their mother's trust but teamed up against the attorney serving as trustee. The Appellate Court concluded that the brothers abandoned their claims against the trustee-attorney. The…
In this Connecticut appeal, Gladstein v. Goldfield, the Connecticut Appellate Court ruled that the invited error doctrine precluded appellate review of the trial court's denial of plaintiff's motion to substitute plaintiff. Plaintiff initially was a 50% beneficiary of her mother's…
In this Connecticut appeal, O'Toole v. Hernandez, the Appellate Court concluded that a family support magistrate had the authority to order defendant to pay plaintiff's attorney's fees in connection with defendant's contempt of a support order for the unmarried parties'…
Plaintiff in this Connecticut appeal (Edizione, S.P.A. v. Dragone) obtained a money judgment against defendants from a court in Rome, Italy. Alleging that the individual defendant was a Connecticut resident and the corporate defendant was a Connecticut corporation, plaintiff commenced…
The Connecticut appeal in Lichaj v. Sconyers involved snow plowing, vexatious litigation and probable cause. The advance release opinion, which becomes official on March 1, 2016, explains that the Welles and the Lichajes had a common driveway. The deeds included the following…
In this Connecticut Appeal, the Appellate Court concluded that an employee's vacation time should be included in determining his average weekly wage for workers' compensation purposes. The decision in Menard v. Willimantic Waste Paper Company, to be officially released on…
The Connecticut Appellate Court applied interpretive gloss to save the recognizance statute's constitutionality in an opinion to be officially released on March 1, 2016. The main issue in this appeal, Harnage v. Lightner, was whether an inmate had to post…
A civil protection order stands if the court finds reasonable grounds to believe that respondent committed sexual abuse, sexual assault or stalking under one, but not all three, of the statutes enumerated in CGS ยง 46b-16a(a). The Connecticut Appellate Court…
It was proper for a Probate Court to reject a proponent's second attempt to proffer a will where the Probate Court already had rejected it as invalid, according to a Connecticut Appellate Court opinion to be officially released on February…
An attorney who violates the contingency fee statute cannot recover in quantum meruit. The Connecticut Appellate Court reached this conclusion in Parnoff v. Yuille, to be officially released on February 23, 2016. Plaintiff and defendant entered into a contingent fee…
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