Federico v. Order of Saint Benedict in Rhode Island

How courts have described this case

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• holding that third-party plaintiff claiming legal malpractice had no attorney-client relationship with attorney representing limited partnership, in which third-party plaintiff was limited partner, when attorney had suggested that third-party plaintiff retain separate counsel
• filing federal claims in state court “is a legitimate tactical decision by 3 the plaintiff: it is an offer to the defendant to litigate the federal claims in state court.”
• analyzing 8 Under a theory of supervisory liability, a supervisor may be held liable only if a subordinate violated the plaintiff’s constitutional rights. See Aponte Matos v . Toledo Davila, 135 F.3d 182, 192 (1st Cir. 1998
• “The Rhode Island Supreme Court has often stated that an attorney- client relationship . . . may be implied from [the parties’] conduct.”
• threat to keep the defendant in a holding cell until he confessed is not so egregious as to give rise to a substantive due process violation
• burden of showing harmful error in a civil case is on party asserting error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).