Federal Judge Takes Attorneys to Task Over Tactics

Pennsylvania federal Judge John P. Fullam recently gave a good finger-wagging to the lawyers on both sides of an insurance bad faith case by disposing of a hefty stack of pretrial motions with a two-page memorandum and a one-page order that denied them all. "It seems clear that counsel are more interested in annoying each other than in advancing meritorious positions," Fullam wrote in the tersely worded opinion.

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