Legal Opinion
Bowman v. Abramson
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided July 27, 1982No. Civ. A. 81-4701PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
NEWCOMER, District Judge.
Defendants move to dismiss this legal malpractice action, asserting lack of a justi-ciable controversy. Plaintiff argues in response that unless he is permitted to maintain his suit here it may become barred by the statute of limitations. For the reasons set forth below, the defendants’ motion to dismiss will be granted.
Plaintiff, James Bowman, alleges that his former attorneys, defendants Gilbert Abramson, Jeffrey Freedman, Allen Get-son, and Lawrence Corson, were negligent in their conduct of two medical malpractice lawsuits commenced in the Philadelphia…
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