DOMINGUEZ v. UNITED STATES

No. 1210, Docket 78-6075.

583 F.2d 615 (1978)

Genova DOMINGUEZ, as Administratrix of the Estate of Francisco Dominguez, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andres Astacio Santos, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Burton S. Weston, Asst. U. S. Atty., Brooklyn, N. Y. (David G. Trager, U. S. Atty., E. D. N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before LUMBARD and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges, and HOLDEN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

At a time when leaders of the bench and bar are advocating steps to improve the quality of advocacy and to tighten qualifications for practice in the courtroom with a view to improvement in the administration of justice, we are faced upon this appeal with the sad spectacle of how an innocent client can be victimized by gross negligence and incompetence on the part of her trial counsel.

After exhausting her administrative remedies appellant, as...

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