Legal Opinion
Argentieri v. Fisher Landscapes, Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided June 9, 1998No. Civ. 98-10229-NGPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GERTNER, District Judge.
This case, under federal debt collection laws and pendent state claims brought against an attorney who appended a request for attorney’s fees to his $6,000 state court contract claim, is one in which zealous advocacy has run amok. The case is fundamentally frivolous. Even if there was a modicum of substance to it, plaintiffs lawyer should have exercised some professional judgment and restraint: this case should have never been brought.
Defendants Peter J. Nicosia, Esq. (Nicosia) and his law firm, Boudreau & Nicosia, P.C. (Boudreau & Nicosia), have…
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