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· 9/18/1997

R.D.H. Communications, Ltd. v. Winston

Citations

  • 700 A.2d 766
  • 1997 D.C. App. LEXIS 222
  • 1997 WL 575864

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that “the exhaustion of appeals rule manipulates the concept of legal injury”
  • applying rule in part because client-plaintiff had not “hire[d] a new attorney” and “stay[ed] the course with” attorney-defendant
  • applying rule in part because client-plaintiff had not \hire[d] a new attorney\ and \stay[ed] the course with\ attorney-defendant
  • “[a client’s] decision to stay the course with [his attorney] is not one this court should second-guess in relation to the statute of limitations issue”
  • “The rule’s primary purpose is to avoid placing a client in the untenable position of suing his attorney while the latter continues to represent him.”
  • “The court in Winston also set an outer bound on the duration of the ‘specific dispute’—it does not include appeals.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Schwelb, Ruiz, Gallagher

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