Taco Bell Corp. v. Cracken

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

FITZWATER, District Judge.

This is an action to recover against two attorneys, and one attorney’s professional corporation, on theories of fraud, abuse of process, conspiracy, and negligent misrepresentation for allegedly-collusive conduct that enabled the plaintiffs in a state-court wrongful death suit to maintain venue in a favorable forum. The court concludes that plaintiffs claims are barred as a matter of law, because each one arises out of conduct undertaken as part of the defendant-attorneys’ duties in representing parties to a lawsuit to which plaintiff was…