Fernandes v. Barrs

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the majority rule “prevents a windfall to the client by preventing him from recovering more from the attorney than he could have actually obtained from the tortfeasor in the underlying action”
• noting that the traditional rule \prevents a windfall to the client by preventing him from recovering more from the attorney than he could have actually obtained from the tortfeasor in the underlying action\
• noting that the majority rule “prevents a windfall to the client by preventing him from recovering more from the attorney 26 than he could have actually obtained from the tortfeasor in the underlying action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).