Legal Opinion
Barbara Bowers v. The Ophthalmology Group
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 25, 2013No. 19-4098PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J., joined by Sargus, D.J.,
GRIFFIN, J. (pp. 655-58), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
*649OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
When a prior attorney-client relationship exists between a party and an opposing party’s counsel, the opposing party’s counsel must be disqualified if confidential information was shared in the prior matter and that matter is substantially related to the current one. In this appeal, we consider the meaning of “substantially related.”
Plaintiff-Appellant, Barbara Jean Bowers, M.D., is an ophthalmologist in Paducah, Kentucky. From 2002 to 2010, Bowers was a partner of The Ophthalmology…
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