Jordan v. Fox, Rothschild, O'Brien & Frankel

OPINION OF THE COURT

HUTCHINSON, Circuit Judge.

I. Introduction

These three appeals all arise out of a dispute over a commercial lease (“Lease”) between Arnold T. and Myron J. Berman t/a H.P. Realty (“Bermans” or “Landlord”), commercial landlords who rent office space in Philadelphia, and one of their tenants, Jordan Mitchell, Inc. (sometimes the “Tenant”), an architectural firm. In the course of that dispute, the Bermans’ attorneys invoked a confession of judgment clause in a form lease executed by the Tenant’s predecessor causing the Prothonotary of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas to…