The Supreme Court of New Jersey on Wednesday ruled a lower court misapplied the summary judgment standard in determining a defendant to prior litigation paid a New Jersey firm and its client with settlement money that did not belong to him.
In a 21-page opinion, the Supreme Court sent the case back to the Superior Court to sort out critical factual questions that, the high court said, were left undecided when a judge ruled that the defendant breached a 2009 settlement agreement by paying $75,000 with funds that belonged to a bankrupt company.
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