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Courts Obligated To Address Jurisdictional Issues Before Reaching Merits Of A Case

By r morris

A 2006 ruling of a New York appellate court serves as a reminder that a trial court's jurisdiction to entertain a dispute is a threshold matter and, accordingly, a trial court has the obligation to address this issue before proceeeding forward to rule on the merits of the case.The appeals court ruled that it was error for a trial court to grant a judgment in a foreclosure action before first

Full post as published by The Home Equity Theft Reporter on March 07, 2009 (boomark / email).