NorVergence Default Judgment's Worthless?

This e-mail is from a well-known and respected attorney, Ronald P. Gossett, who represents many NorVergence lessees as defendants. To our direct knowledge, he has had the pulse on all the legal actions involving NorVergence leases.

This is his opinion as to the “default judgments” mentioned above:

“All of these default judgments are meaningless when it comes to Enforceability… The leasing companies are not party to the suits which have resulted in these default judgments; thus, the leasing companies are not bound by the decisions regardless of which court or which state in which they are rendered. The judgments only mean that NorVergence can not enforce them.

“Collateral estoppel, which is the legal doctrine where one tries to take a ruling applied to one entity and apply the same ruling to parties in other cases growing out of the same facts, requires circumstances which are not present here.

“All that these default judgments mean is that the politicians pursuing them (I.e., the attorneys general) are getting publicity for a day. If they want to do something meaningful, sue the leasing companies as Florida's attorney general has done (although presently unsuccessfully). Until then, the fact that NorVergence didn't show up in one or one hundred courtrooms does not matter.”

Ronald P. Gossett
rongossett@gossettlaw.com

Gossett & Gossett, P.A.
Building I
4700 Sheridan Street
Hollywood, FL  33021
(954) 983-2828