Legal Opinion
in Re Haynes and Boone, LLP and Patrick L. Hughes
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided July 26, 2012No. 01-12-00341-CVPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MICHAEL MASSENGALE, Justice.
This original proceeding concerns a legal malpractice claim relating to the handling of an antitrust matter.1 The relators, *841Haynes and Boone, LLP and Patrick L. Hughes, are defendants in the malpractice suit. The real parties in interest, Rx.com, Inc. and its founder Joe S. Rosson, filed the suit alleging that the relators (and others) harmed them by failing to timely file an antitrust suit within the limitations period.
The relators contend that the suit presents embedded federal issues in the form of Sherman Act claims which must be proved to prevail on the…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Anthony G. Petrello v. Matthew W. Prucka, Sheryl S. Prucka, Rahul Nath and Usha Nath, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2013
- Terrence L. Daniels v. Barbara Browder, Susana Martinez, in Her Individual and Official Capacities, Amy Orlando, in Her Individual and Official Capacities, Susan Riedel, in Her Individual and Official Capacities, James Dickens, in His Individual and Official Capacities, Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)2017