Legal Opinion
Skinner v. Stone, Raskin & Israel
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 5, 1983No. 131, Docket 83-7358PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:
Robert A. Skinner appeals from a summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 559 F.Supp. 808, Weinfeld, J., dismissing appellant's complaint, which alleged that the defendant attorneys had represented him negligently in a divorce proceeding in New York Supreme Court. We reverse and remand.
The parties to this appeal have not given us a very clear picture of what happened in the divorce proceeding, and we suspect that there was a similar lack of clarity in the district court. It appears, however, that, on August 8,…
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