Cedeno v. Gumbiner

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• indicating that attorney \defendants cannot be held accountable for the court's acceptance of a legally unsound basis for granting summary judgment against [their client]\
• indicating that judicial error, not the attorney's malpractice, was the proximate cause of the plaintiff's damages; therefore, summary judgment was appropriate
• ruling that the legal malpractice defendants, whose alleged negligence precipitated an erroneous trial court ruling, “could not have proximately caused [their client’s] damages since her case remained actionable at the time of their discharge as [her] attorneys”
• applying Land to hold that trial court’s acceptance of legally unsound basis for granting summary judgment served as an intervening cause absolving former attorneys for negligent handling of client’s case
• plaintiff alleged that, as a result of defendants’ negligence in serving an inadequate notice of claim on the personal injury defendant, the trial court granted summary judgment against her in her personal injury case
• plaintiff alleged that, as a result of defendants' negligence in serving an inadequate notice of claim on the personal injury defendant, the trial court granted summary judgment against her in her personal injury case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).