Connecticut Appellate Court reverses a trial court’s award of attorney’s fees under the quiet title statute, holding that § 47-31(e) authorizes only statutory costs—not counsel fees—in favor of a disclaiming defendant, consistent with the American rule.
Connecticut Appellate Court holds that the litigation privilege bars an IIED claim arising from an allegedly fraudulent probate conservatorship proceeding, ruling that downstream out-of-court conduct taken pursuant to conservator authority obtained in the proceeding cannot be carved out as independently actionable.
Connecticut Appellate Court affirms denial of a second habeas petition, holding that trial counsel’s failure to raise a Crawford Confrontation Clause objection at a 2008 murder trial was not deficient when the law was unsettled, and habeas counsel was not ineffective for failing to raise a sentence review claim the petitioner never communicated.
Connecticut Appellate Court reverses a $42 million verdict against a product shipper, holding that a warehouse worker’s catastrophic injuries from falling unsecured freight were not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the shipper’s failure to stretch-wrap a pallet.
Connecticut Appellate Court affirms dismissal of a neighbor fence dispute, holding the claim was moot because the fence was already built and the complaint failed to allege specific damage required for the private zoning enforcement exception.