United States Federal Circuit
Neurorepair, Inc. v. Nath Law Group, 13-1073
In this legal malpractice case involving patent law representation, the judgment of the district court is vacated and remanded with instructions to remand the case to California state court, where: 1) under Gunn v. Minton, federal jurisdiction is lacking here because no federal issue is necessarily raised, any federal issues raised are not substantial in the relevant sense, and the resolution by federal courts of attorney malpractice claims that do not raise substantial issues of federal law would disrupt the federal-state balance; and 2) addressing what would have happened had the alleged bad acts of defendants not occurred requires a court to engage in the sort of backward-looking, hypothetical analysis contemplated in Gunn.
Appellate Information
- Decided 01/15/2015
- Published 01/15/2015
Judges
- Wallach
Court
- United States Federal Circuit