Fortson v. Hotard

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• holding that complaint was properly dismissed when plaintiffs failed to establish first element of legal malpractice—employment of the attorney
• appellant filed notice of appeal before trial court had ruled on motion for reconsideration, divesting tried court of jurisdiction to reconsider its order
• complaint failed to state a claim for abusive litigation where plaintiff did not allege that defendant took an active part in the initiation or continuation of civil proceedings against plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).