Civil Litigation
Nov. 15, 2019
Defense attorney calls for terminating sanctions in franchising bench trial
The rare sanction is the most serious available, and attorneys say a falsified sexual misconduct allegation warrants it
DeCarlo
A civil defense attorney this week called for a franchising lawsuit to be terminated over a false statutory rape allegation, accusing opposing counsel of reckless accusations he said continued in their closing argument and final brief.
“The trite saying that ‘apparently you haven’t learned your lesson’ would seem to be apropos here,” said Daniel C. DeCarlo, a partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP. “The plaintiff’s ‘shoo...
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