Legal Opinion
In the Matter of James Yao Gleasman and Margaret Yao Gleasman, Debtors. James Yao Gleasman and Margaret Yao Gleasman v. Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1991No. 90-8301PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
This suit for legal malpractice rests on diversity jurisdiction and is controlled by Texas law. The grant of summary judgment for the law firm rested on Texas’s two-year period of limitations and discovery rule.
James and Margaret Yao Gleasman sued the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Po-gue in a Texas state court. After the case was removed to the federal bankruptcy court, where the Gleasmans had earlier filed for bankruptcy, the bankruptcy court granted summary judgment in favor of Jones, Day on the ground that the two-year limitations period had run on…
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