Court: Lawyers can't be sued for fraud

... a centuries-old legal doctrine called absolute immunity. The court's 5-1 decision came in the case of Bob Simms of Greenwich, who played for the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers in the early 1960s and later founded an investment firm. Simms ...

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