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Personal Injury & Torts

Sep. 14, 2007

In Reaching High Court, Lawyers Find Snag - Client Died in 2004

WASHINGTON - Appellate lawyers, when you petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, here's another item to add to your checklist: Make sure your client is still alive.

By Brent Kendall
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      WASHINGTON - Appellate lawyers, when you petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, here's another item to add to your checklist: Make sure your client is still alive.
      In a move that could make any lawyer blush with embarrassment, attorneys suing Medtronic Inc. over an allegedly faulty medical device had the unpleasant task of informing the just...

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