Usually, when an appeals court finds a trial judge fails to explain his reasons for imposing sanctions on a party, the remedy is remand. But when a case is already six years old and on its second trip upstairs, the court may take matters into its own hands.
That happened Tuesday as the Appellate Division reversed a $28,608 frivolous litigation sanction in a contract dispute, found the motion prompting the sanction was not frivolous under R. 1:4-8 and declared the case closed.
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