Rhodes, Inc. v. Morrow

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an attorney, as a representative of the client, was a non-outsider with respect to transactions on which the attorney advised the client
• holding that Mississippi anti-assignment law was not preempted
• characterizing capacity defense as one for failure to state a claim
• Negligent misrepresentation “generally cannot be to a future occurrence because the determination of truth or falsity must be made at the time of the representation.”
• “This tort, if applied to an attorney offering advice to a client on the validity of a contract or the necessity of complying with an agreement, would so restrict that attorney's ability to counsel the client as to make application of the tort, in that instance, against public policy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).