Theno v. Cuthbertson

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that when an attorney represents a corporation, the corporation is the attorney’s client, rather than the shareholders
• stating that because the plaintiff failed to explain the importance of the proposed “areas of inquiry or the manner in which their foreclosure prejudiced its case,” the plaintiff “failed to prove that the trial court’s time limitation affected its substantial rights”
• applying a harmless-error analysis to an alleged violation of MRE 408
• “[T]o the extent that any valid common law claim may happen to find a corollary in the MRPC, the rules of professional conduct do not eliminate or render invalid a fiduciary duty claim.”
• “A contract must be interpreted according to its plain and ordinary meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).