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151464P.pdf 08/11/2016 The PPW Royalty Trust, etc. v. George Barton
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-1464
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Legal malpractice. Claim that the defendant attorneys
committed legal malpractice by failing to raise issue preclusion was
properly rejected as the issue decided in the second case was not actually
decided or necessary to the decision in the first case, and the attorneys
did not commit malpractice by failing to advance the issue preclusion
argument in the second case; argument that the attorneys committed legal
malpractice by failing to raise a claim preclusion argument rejected;
claim that the attorneys committed legal malpractice by failing to raise a
constitution-based judicial takings claim rejected.