Although he was compelled to rule in defendants’ favor, a federal judge skewered them for letting nearly a year pass since they settled a case without providing a release to the 86-year-old plaintiff in a slip-and-fall personal injury case.
"We find defendants’ non-action on this point to be clearly dilatory, unreasonable and bordering on sanctionable conduct given the plaintiff’s advanced age," said U.S. District Chief Judge J. Curtis Joyner of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Mackrides v. Marshalls.
