DUART v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION

No. 18476.

34 A.3d 343 (2012)

303 Conn. 479

Bonnie DUART v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided January 24, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon M. Rosenblatt , West Hartford, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Gregory T. D'Auria, solicitor general, with whom were Antoria D. Howard , assistant attorney general, and, on the brief, George Jepsen, attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, former attorney general, Margaret Q. Chapple , assistant attorney general, and Jane B. Emons , former assistant attorney general, for the appellee (defendant).

Kathleen Eldergill , Manchester, filed a brief for the Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association as amicus curiae.

Charles Krich filed a brief for the commission on human rights and opportunities as amicus curiae.

ROGERS, C.J., and PALMER, ZARELLA, McLACHLAN, EVELEIGH, VERTEFEUILLE and BEAR, Js.


McLACHLAN, J.

The issue before us in this certified appeal is whether a party seeking a new trial on the basis of alleged knowing and deliberate discovery misconduct must show that the result at a new trial would likely be different.1 The plaintiff, Bonnie Duart, appeals, upon our grant of her petition for certification, from the judgment of the Appellate Court affirming the trial court's denial...

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