Legal Opinion
Mary Scanlan v. Marshall Eisenberg
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 20, 2012No. 11-1657PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Mary Bucksbaum Scanlan (“Scanlan”) is a current beneficiary of several discretionary trusts. Scanlan brought claims of legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty against the trustee and her lawyers. The district court dismissed all of her claims with prejudice and ruled that Scanlan lacked Article III standing because she did not allege facts showing a likelihood that the trusts’ corpus were insufficient to pay her discretionary distributions. We reverse and remand.
I. BACKGROUND
A. The Trusts and the Parties
Scanlan was born in 1969 and is the daughter of Martin…
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