Legal Opinion
Falls Church Group, Ltd. v. Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn, LLP
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided January 23, 2007No. SC 17489PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KATZ, J.
This certified appeal arises from a common-law and statutory vexatious litigation action 1 by the plaintiff, Falls Church Group, Ltd. (Falls Church), against the defendant, Tyler, Cooper and Alcorn, LLP (law firm), based upon the law firm’s prosecution of a time barred class action against Falls Church’s predecessor in interest. The law firm had brought the action on behalf of a group of senior citizens who had lost considerable sums of money after executing residence agreements allowing them to live in a continuing care retirement community that had been marketed by Falls…
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