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Fifth Circuit· 7/30/2008

Singh v. Duane Morris LLP

Citations

  • 538 F.3d 334
  • 87 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1532
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 16191
  • 2008 WL 2908912

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  • noting that resolution of the federal issue must be “necessary to resolution of the state- law claim”
  • noting that resolution of the federal issue must be “necessary to resolution of the state- law claim”
  • noting that a legal malpractice action “will in no way disturb or interfere with the judgments of the federal courts” regarding the underlying federal intellectual property lawsuit
  • noting that the Supreme Court in Merrell Dow “reasoned that because Congress had established no private remedy for violations of the statute, it had no substantial interest in seeing the statute applied in state tort cases”
  • declining to exercise jurisdiction in a legal malpractice action, in part, because legal malpractice has traditionally been the domain of state law
  • finding federal jurisdiction inappropriate where “federal issue [did not require] resolution of an important question of law” but was “predominantly one of fact”

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Judges: Reavley, Smith, Dennis

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