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stipulation of settled issues, which resolved all pending issues
in these cases, was initially submitted by counsel for the
parties on March 11, 2003, the day before the scheduled trial.
As a consequence, the trial was canceled and the parties were
ordered to submit stipulated decisions by May 12, 2003.
Commencing April 20, 2003, however, the Court received a series
of documents from petitioner Terence J. Wolfe (Mr. Wolfe) and
Joseph B. Mansour, in which Mr. Wolfe, speaking on his behalf and
purportedly on behalf of petitioner Giselle M. Wolfe (Mrs.
Wolfe), and Mr. Mansour, purporting to represent petitioner WFO
Corp. (WFO), asserted that counsel for Mr. Wolfe, Mrs. Wolfe, and
WFO had signed the stipulation of settled issues without
authorization.
On May 19, 2003, respondent filed a Motion for Entry of
Decisions. On June 4, 2003, the Court received both a response
to respondent’s motion, purportedly from all petitioners (with
Mr. Mansour purporting to represent petitioner WFO), and a letter
from Mrs. Wolfe in which she asserted that she was the sole
shareholder of WFO and that Mr. Mansour was not authorized to act
on its behalf in this proceeding. The June 4 response reiterated
the claim that petitioners’ counsel had signed the stipulation of
settled issues without authorization. On June 10, 2003, the
Court received a second letter from Mrs. Wolfe in which she
advised that she had not signed or authorized the June 4 response
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