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MATTER OF GLEASMAN

No. 90-8301.

933 F.2d 1277 (1991)

In the Matter of James Yao GLEASMAN and Margaret Yao Gleasman, Debtors. James Yao GLEASMAN and Margaret Yao Gleasman, Appellants, v. JONES, DAY, REAVIS & POGUE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 10, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Vogt, Stephen A. Roberts, Edward D. Burbach, Griggs & Harrison, Austin, Tex., for appellants.

Morris Atlas, Gary Gurwitz, Lisa Powell, Atlas & Hall, McAllen, Tex., for appellee.

Before GOLDBERG, HIGGINBOTHAM, and JONES, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

This suit for legal malpractice rests on diversity jurisdiction and is controlled by Texas law. The grant of summary judgment for the law firm rested on Texas's two-year period of limitations and discovery rule.

James and Margaret Yao Gleasman sued the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in a Texas state court. After the case was removed to the federal bankruptcy court, where the Gleasmans had earlier filed for...

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