Gordon v. Halperin

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION.

The only docket entry made on the docket of the Superior Court to reflect that court’s decision in this case reads in full as follows:

01-08-82 Decision and Order filed. The entry shall be:(1) Plaintiff-Petitioner’s motion for summary judgment is Denied.(2) Defendant-Respondent’s motion for summary judgment is Granted.

That docket entry is in patent noncompliance with M.R.Civ.P. 79(a) requiring that notations on the docket show the nature and substance of every judgment. 2 By M.R.Civ.P. 58 no judgment is effective until its “notation .. . upon the civil docket in…