· 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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