Legal Opinion
George C. Jones, Jr., and Peggy Linn Jones v. Lee Thompson, A/K/A Morris Lee Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1993No. 92-3199PublishedCited by 219 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs appeal the dismissal of their lawsuit with prejudice as a sanction for noncompliance with court orders. For the reasons stated below, we affirm the district court’s decision.
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George and Peggy Jones feel their lawyers have let them down. The Joneses believe their former counsel gave them faulty advice regarding the interplay between federal bankruptcy law and federal tax liability and failed to perfect a security interest in collateral for a promissory note. To recover their losses, the Joneses sued the lawyers for malpractice. In July 1988…
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