Legal Opinion
Pellegrin & Levine, Chartered v. Phillip R. Antoine
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 24, 1992No. 90-7187PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WALD.
WALD, Circuit Judge:
In the District of Columbia an action against a partnership must be brought in the names of the individual partners and each partner must be served individually. In this case, a Washington, D.C. law firm sued a two-person partnership in a fee dispute, but failed to heed this well-established rule, serving only one of the two partners. The fee dispute resulted in a consent judgment, signed only by the partner that was served. We are now asked by the firm to overturn the district court’s order vacating the consent judgment as…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Sheldon Lovelace v. Acme Markets, IncCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1987
- Green, Francis v. Humphrey Elevator and Truck Company and Maintenance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1987
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