Manhattan Justice Carol Robinson Edmead has rejected a request from the owner of the Blimpies sandwich empire to excuse him from appearing as a trial witness based on his anxiety. Nicholas Lagano Jr. purportedly suffers from such severe anxiety that a recent court order to testify in a landlord-tenant dispute involving a Blimpies franchise sent him to a hospital emergency room. Edmead found Lagano available and competent to testify and noted that the sparse case law on the issue supported her decision.
September 29, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The owner of a sizable fast-food sandwich empire purportedly suffers from anxiety so severe that a recent court order to testify in a landlord-tenant dispute instead resulted in a trip to a Brooklyn emergency room.
Following the hospital visit for undisclosed symptoms, Nicholas Lagano Jr., president of two corporations that own approximately 400 Blimpies restaurants, requested that Manhattan Justice Carol Robinson Edmead substitute his deposition testimony in lieu of an appearance as a witness.
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