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McGill v. Goff

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Overruled in part
Court
Fifth Circuit
Citation
17 F.3d 729
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
40 of 40
Citing cases (total)
40
Treatment dates
1994
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. McGill v. Goff is overruled in part by the Fifth Circuit decision listed below. All 40 flagged citations have been read.
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Kansa Reinsurance Co., Ltd. v. Congressional Mortgage Corp. of Texas rejected McGill's four-year limitations period for Texas fiduciary-duty claims and adopted a two-year period. Later opinions continue to apply McGill's separate rule concerning early adoption of a magistrate judge's report.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

40 later cases cite McGill v. Goff; 40 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Fifth Circuit rejected McGill's four-year limitations period for Texas fiduciary-duty claims and adopted the two-year tort limitations period.

    Kansa Reinsurance Co., Ltd. v. Congressional Mortg. Corp. of Texas · Fifth Circuit · filed

    McGill v. Goff, 17 F.3d 729, 734 (5th Cir.1994) (relying upon Spangler, 797 S.W.2d at 132, and utilizing four-year rule) ... For these reasons, we do not find persuasive the reasoning in Spangler that Williams dictates the application of the four-year statute of limitations for fiduciary duty claims and decline to follow the opinions of this court which rely upon Spangler.
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