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302 Conn. 915

27 A.3d 373

Simms v. Seaman

Robert SIMMS V, Penny Q. SEAMAN et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided September 7, 2011

Supreme Court of Connecticut · decided 2011-09-07

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2020

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¶1Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided September 7, 2011.

¶2John R. Williams, New Haven, in support of the petition.

¶3Raymond J. Plouffe, Jr., Shelton, Nadine M. Pare, Cheshire, Patrick M. Noonan, and Matthew H. Geelan, Guilford, in opposition.

¶4The plaintiff's petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 129 Conn.App. 651, 23 A.3d 1, is granted, limited to the following issue:

¶5"Did the Appellate Court properly determine that claims of fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress brought against attorneys for conduct that occurred during judicial proceedings were barred as a matter of law by the doctrine of absolute immunity?"

¶6NORCOTT and HARPER, Js., did not participate in the consideration of or decision on this petition.

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