“Nothing in federal law prevents a disappointed litigant in a federal case from suing his lawyer under state malpractice law. E.g., Kregos v. Stone, 872 ...
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05-3391 Fischer v. Cingular Wireless, LLC
“Cingular’s request that the suit be dismissed if Fischer continued to disregard discovery deadlines, the fact that the judge had already dismissed the suit once ...
Read More »04-1544 Marshall v. Marshall
Vickie’s claim does not involve the administration of an estate, the probate of a will, or any other purely probate matter. Provoked by Pierce’s claim ...
Read More »05-2637 Tagliere v. Harrah’s Illinois Corp.
“[A]n effort to determine admiralty jurisdiction case by case by estimating the relative closeness of fit of state law and admiralty law to the particular ...
Read More »04-2882 Andrews v. E.I. DuPont
“In the order granting DuPont summary judgment, the district court held that Andrews must lose because without expert testimony he could not prove that any ...
Read More »2005AP935 Kolupar v. Wilde Pontiac Cadillac, Inc.
“Thus, unlike the situation under § 218.01(9)(am) (1993–94), the legislature did not intend by its bare use of the word ‘costs’ in § 218.01(9)(b) (1993–94) ...
Read More »2005AP2123 Jackson v. Labor and Industry Review Commission
Moreover, we believe that plaintiff’s petition did raise the issue of procedural irregularities and abuse of discretion in the department’s treatment of plaintiff’s petition sufficient ...
Read More »2005AP1016 Ames v. Atkinson, et al.
George R. Atkinson and Green Valley Farms, Inc., appeal from an order denying a motion to reopen a 2002 default judgment in favor of David ...
Read More »05-4092 Chicago United Industries, Ltd., v. City of Chicago
“The City has reinstated all the cancelled contracts. It has rescinded the debarment. It has adopted a new rule that authorizes, although it does not ...
Read More »2005AP706 Shovers v. Shovers
“Against this backdrop it is easy to see why Sylvia’s attempt to gain ownership of shares of stock that she alleges were part of her ...
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