Faber v. Herman

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that although an attorney negligently drafted an illegal stipulation in a qualified domestic relations order, the damages would have been the same if the attorney had drafted a legal stipulation
• deciding as a matter of law there was no causation between attorney’s negligence and the damages sought by the plaintiff
• analyzing for a causal connection with damages each of four negligence claims on which the jury was instructed
• explaining a causal connection must exist between defendant’s breach and the damages sought by the plaintiff
• stating non-member spouse receives “a share of the pension benefits at some point in the future when they become payable to the pensioner”
• calling causation “an essential element” in a negligence cause of action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).