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US v. Segarra-Rivera

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Professional Malpractice
Denial of motions to withdraw a guilty plea and for new counsel is reversed and remanded for an evidentiary hearing where the defendant made a...

Lakeland Reg'l Med. Ctr., Inc. v. Allen

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
A petition for a writ of certiorari to review an order denying petitioner's motion to dismiss a wrongful death action brought on behalf of an estate...

Kolar v. Donahue McIntosh & Hammerton

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Professional Malpractice
In legal malpractice action, denial of special motion to strike brought under the anti-SLAPP statute is affirmed as: 1) legal malpractice is not an...

Sammons v. Doctors for Emergency Servs., P.A.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In an appeal from a jury verdict for defendants in a medical malpractice action arising from a patient's death allegedly due to sepsis, the judgment...

Mirza v. Trombley

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In the context of medical malpractice, an investigatory affidavit's failure to individually name a particular defendant is not fatally defective, so...

Easters v. Russell

Attorney's Fees, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
An order denying plaintiff's motion for attorneys' fees in a medical malpractice action involving surgical packing gauze left in her abdomen during...

Blevens v. Holcomb

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice case, judgment as a matter of law in favor of doctor is affirmed where plaintiff's expert testimony failed to articulate the...

Cassady v. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Professional Malpractice
In an action for indemnity, arising out of an underlying legal malpractice suit, brought by an attorney against his former law firm employer, grant of...

Charnay v. Cobert

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice, Property Law & Real Estate
In case involving suit against plaintiff's former attorney and his law firm, sustaining of demurrer without leave to amend fourth amended complaint...

Ross v. Kish

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Denial of special motion to strike, under the anti-SLAPP statute, a cause of action for malicious prosecution filed against defendant by plaintiff,...