A Lackawanna County judge has issued a harshly worded opinion on a plaintiff’s post-trial motions to a defense verdict criticizing the plaintiff’s attorney for misrepresenting facts about the trial in launching a "baseless" attack on the court’s integrity.

In a 26-page opinion, Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas Judge Robert A. Mazzoni dismissed all of the challenges lodged by attorney Michael J. Pisanchyn Jr. in a motion for post-trial relief stemming from an auto-accident case in which both parties said the other one blew the red light at the intersection in question.