Christians v. Grant Thornton, LLP

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that in a professional malpractice case (auditor malpractice in that instance
• stating that Minnesota law is not in conflict with Gheewalla 's holding and citing Delaware law as \more clearly developed\ on the issue
• distinguishing deepening-insolvency damages from “damages that an insolvent corporation suffered as a result of embezzlement that would have been prevented but for [the defendant’s] negligence”
• “Certainly, many positive things could have occurred but for [the attorney’s] alleged negligence, but these speculative potential outcomes are the problem with the causation element rather than the answer to it.”
• applying but-for causation test in auditor-malpractice case.
• requiring specific evidence of hypothetical alternative

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).