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IN RE GERMAIN

No. 99-14811 K.

249 B.R. 47 (2000)

In re Christopher C. GERMAIN, Diane Germain, Debtors.

United States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. New York.

May 23, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph W. Keefe, Buffalo, NY, for Debtors.

Douglas M. Fisher, Solomon and Solomon, P.C., Albany, NY, for Creditor.

MICHAEL J. KAPLAN, Bankruptcy Judge.

The Objection to Claim that is before the Court today addresses the notion that a client may be liable for damages caused by her lawyer's abuse of legal process in her name, and the Court finds that she is not liable here where a contrary result would make her a victim of the combined effect of the failure of the legal profession to regulate lawyer advertising, the desire of a law firm to pass its overhead costs onto its opponents...

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