Legal Opinion
Contreras Madrid v. WAL-MART STORES EAST, L.P
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 17, 2025No. 2:24-cv-05229Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA OSVIL LEONEL CONTRERAS MADRID, Plaintiff, CIVIL ACTION v. NO. 24-5229 WAL-MART STORES, L.P., Defendant. Pappert, J. June 17, 2025 MEMORANDUM Many rules—procedural, substantive, ethical and otherwise—govern the practice of law. One of them is Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. Among other things, Rule 11 requires lawyers to properly investigate and research the facts and the law before filing a lawsuit or other papers with courts. In other words, lawyers must “stop, look and listen” before they go around suing…
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