Mehojah v. Moore

I concur fully with the court’s opinion. I do want to add, however, that like most other lawyers I found it necessary to adjust years of thinking the other way, namely, that the judgment was some sort of an interlocutory event in the course of the litigation. Upon reflection it began to appear that the problem was one of semantics caused by the statutory reference to the judicial deficiency calculation as a “judgment.” Clearly there can be but one judgment in an action on a given subject matter,1 so either the first adjudication is not a final judgment or the so-called deficiency “judgment”…