Johnson v. Carleton’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions

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1. “[r]ecognizing the continued vitality of implied contract as an independent cause of action would be fundamentally inconsistent with the modern view that malpractice actions should be predicated on a single basis of liability' — deviation from the professional standard of care.” Johnson, 765 A.2d at 573 n. 3 (quoting Woolley, 418 A.2d at 1135 ) (internal quotation mark omitted). These courts have reasoned that implied contract is ‘'inadequate] ... as a comprehensive liability base in malpractice actions,” Woolley, 418 A.2d at 1135 , because a duty”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Anderson v. Hannaford Bros.

2. “When by these rules or by a notice given thereunder or by order of court an act is required or allowed to be done at or within a specified time, the court for cause shown may at any timé in its discretion ... (2) upon motion made after the expiration of the specified period permit the act to be done where the failure to act was the result of excusable neglect ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. James N. Levis v. Gustav Konitzky