A New Jersey attorney and his client, who last May escaped conviction on charges they unduly pressured an elderly widow to name them as executor and beneficiary of her multimillion-dollar estate, now are trying to avoid punitive damages. Last week, Ronald Casale and a lawyer for Casale's client, Dr. Ronald Sollitto, argued to the state Supreme Court that to allow such a remedy would clog the courts and drastically alter the law of trusts and estates.
October 17, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A New Jersey attorney and his client, who last May escaped conviction on charges they unduly pressured an elderly widow to name them as executor and beneficiary of her multimillion dollar estate, now are trying to avoid punitive damages.
A New Jersey appeals court ruled last December that although Ronald Casale and his client, Dr. Ronald Sollitto, could not be forced to pay attorney fees to the beneficiary they effectively disinherited, a jury could still assess punitive damages against them.
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