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· 9/25/2003

Andrews v. Saylor Ex Rel. Estate of Scarborough

Citations

  • 80 P.3d 482
  • 134 N.M. 545
  • 2003 NMCA 132

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that proximate cause determinations in legal malpractice actions are generally questions of fact and rejecting the idea that a jury cannot determine whether a hypothetical appeal would succeed
  • holding that “in a legal malpractice action, the issue of proximate cause is a question of fact for the jury, and this is so even when proximate cause depends upon whether or not an appeal would have been successful”

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Judges: Alarid, Wechsler, Kennedy

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