School District No. 3 v. Brooks

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that when completing standardized real estate forms that already identified required information, “accuracy, rather than discretion—legal or otherwise—is what is required” and thus was not practice of law
• holding that preparation of loan applications and financial disclosures was not practice of law because “[t]he forms state what information is required to be filled in or provided” and “accuracy, rather than discretion—legal or otherwise—is what is required”
• holding that preparation of loan applications and financial disclosures was not practice of law because “[t]he forms state what information is required to be filled in or provided” and “accuracy, rather than discretion—legal or otherwise—is what is required”
• concluding plaintiffs did not confer a benefit on mortgage company because their unjust-enrichment claim “depends on the [plaintiffs] having directly paid a fee for the preparation of the legal documents” that they did not pay
• “[e]ach word, clause, sentence and provision of a statute is presumed to have meaning and effect”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).