{"id":97,"date":"2004-04-21T17:23:03","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T22:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cavanaghwilliams.com\/blawg\/?p=97"},"modified":"2004-04-21T17:23:03","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T22:23:03","slug":"california-lawyers-liable-for-continuing-unmeritorious-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"California Lawyers Liable for Continuing Unmeritorious Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">On Monday, the California Supreme Court ruled that &#8220;an attorney may be held liable for continuing to prosecute a lawsuit discovered to lack probable cause&#8221;. We have attached a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavanaghwilliams.com\/blawg\/wp-admin\/Zamos%20v.%20Stroud.pdf\">copy of the decision<\/a> in <em>Zamos v. Stroud<\/em>. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Not the law in Ontario (we don&#8217;t think!) but, as is often the case with U.S. jurisprudence, perhaps a harbinger of things to come&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the California Supreme Court ruled that &#8220;an attorney may be held liable for continuing to prosecute a lawsuit discovered to lack probable cause&#8221;. We have attached a copy of the decision in Zamos v. Stroud. Not the law &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=97\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-liability"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}