DePape v. Trinity Health Systems, Inc.

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• holding that emotional distress damages were available for malpractice by an immigration attorney
• recognizing general rule that emotional distress damages are not recoverable in legal malpractice claims, but concluding that case was exceptional because of particular foreseeability of harm to plaintiff as result of attorney’s conduct
• awarding-emotional distress damages in a legal malpractice action in which client was detained at the border after lawyer advised him “to lie to INS officials in order to gain entry to the United States under false pretenses” — conduct both intentional and egregious

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).