Gentzler v. Atlee

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the plaintiff stated a cause of action in a wrongful use of civil proceedings case brought by a physician against lawyer based upon an underlying malpractice suit that was dismissed
• declining to dismiss the claim where “[plaintiff] alleged facts of improper purpose, namely to harass or maliciously injure [plaintiff], and unnecessarily to delay and increase the cost of litigation”
• In Pennsylvania, only surgeons who actually perform the operative procedures have the duty to warn patients of risks and thus obtain informed consent.
• failure to appeal before a court which has the ability to effect any change negates the argument that a lawsuit was filed in an effort to change current law
• “In Pennsylvania, only surgeons who actually perform the operative procedures have the duty to warn patients of risks and thus obtain informed consent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).