Rowell v. Holt

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a public defender owed a special professional duty to a client who had been unlawfully detained to obtain his immediate release
• holding the impact rule was inapplicable to a legal malpractice case against the Office of Public Defender for failure to obtain immediate release of imprisoned client
• recognizing an exception for negligent attorney malpractice under certain circumstances
• creating an exception for legal malpractice that needlessly extends a client's imprisonment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).