Hugel v. Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, LLP

How courts have described this case

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• noting that New Hampshire law provides broad absolute immunity for statements made in judicial proceedings, to include allegations published by attorneys in a civil complaint
• discussing New Hampshire and Massachusetts law and dismissing claim of malpractice in addition to a defamation claim
• applying New Hampshire Law and concluding that the litigation privilege barred \legal malpractice claims\
• applying New Hampshire Law and concluding that the litigation privilege barred \legal malpractice claims\
• “[W]hen state law is sufficiently clear to allow [a federal court] to predict its course, certification is both inappropriate and an unwarranted burden on the state court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).