Supreme Court of Connecticut December 3, 1996, 15334 (CFM of Connecticut, Inc. v. Chowdhury)

BORDEN, J.

The dispositive issue of this certified appeal is whether a definite, unappealed sanctions order by a trial judge, addressed to an attorney and based on the attorney’s bad faith pleading, is a final judgment for purposes of res judicata and, therefore, precludes a subsequent trial judge in the same case from vacating that order.