Webster v. Perrotta

I respectfully dissent. The grounds for my disagreement with the majority are as follows:(1) Rule 37 of the Superior Court Rules of Civil Procedure, not Rule 55, is the operative rule governing the judgments

that entered in this case. Applying Rule 55, the majority declares that the “final judgments” that entered in this case as sanctions for the town’s noncompliance with the court’s orders concerning plaintiffs’ discovery demands were void to the extent that they purported to award the relief that plaintiffs had requested in the complaints, and to the extent they included a specific mandate…