Jones v. Psimos’s Empirical Analysis
882 F.2d 1277 · 1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2014
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Kleinhans v. Trust · McMillian v. Svetanoff · 176 Ind. App. 344 - Lawshe v. Glen Park Lbr. Co., Inc. · Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Wisconsin
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“Ms. Jones [the plaintiff] and Mr. Psimos [the attorney] also agree that the determinative issue is the question of causation. Mr. Psimos was clearly hired by Ms. Jones to represent her, and Mr. Psimos, for purposes of argument, accepts that he failed to exercise ordinary skill and knowledge by an attorney when he neglected to file the papers necessary to perfect Ms. Jones’ appeal. The question is whether this negligence caused any damage to Ms. Jones. She quite obviously has lost any rights to farther appeal the properiy distribution entered in the Joneses’ divorce case, but that alone is insufficient to impose liability upon Mr. Psimos. “[A] party must establish that there was a valid claim in the underlying action which was allegedly mishandled by the defendant attorney. In other words, the client must show that the attorney’s negligence proximately caused the injury.” National Wrecking Co. v. Spangler, Jennings, Spangler & Dougherty, 782 F.2d 101, 104 (7th Cir.1986) (applying Indiana law) (citation omitted).... Mr. Psimos claims that summary judgment was properly granted in his favor because Ms. Jones did not have a valid underlying claim. Ms. Jones, on the other hand, disagrees, asserting that if Mr. Psimos had perfected the appeal the Indiana Court of Appeals would have reversed the property distribution order of the trial court. This is in fact what Ms. Jones would have to prove in the district court if she were to succeed in her attorney malpractice claim. When analyzi”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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