Legal Opinion
Freeman v. Schack
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 27, 2007No. D048583PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
O’ROURKE, J.
Plaintiffs Arleen Freeman and James Alexander appeal from a judgment entered after the trial court granted defendant Alexander Schack’s special motion to strike their complaint under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16. Plaintiffs sued Schack for breach of contract, professional negligence and breach of fiduciary duty based on allegations that he had entered into a contract by which he assumed attorney-client duties toward plaintiffs but abandoned them in order to represent adverse interests in the same and different litigation, thus breaching the contract as well as the…
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