Legal Opinion
Lombardi v. Masso
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided August 26, 2011No. A-28/29 September Term 2010, 066488PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Long
At the center of this appeal is a straightforward legal question: whether the trial judge properly granted summary judgment to the moving defendants in this action for breach of contract, fraud, misrepresentation, and conspiracy, arising out of a real estate transaction. Unfortunately, that legal question emerges out of what can best be characterized as a procedural swamp.
The trial judge granted summary judgment to five of the seven defendants in December 2006, and denied reconsideration in August 2007. At the same time, he conducted a proof hearing regarding a defaulted defendant. As a…
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