BAKER v. SIMPSON

Docket No. 09-3848-bk.

613 F.3d 346 (2010)

Aston BAKER, Creditor-Appellant, v. Charles SIMPSON, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, Stanley Gallant, Galster Capital LLC, Galster Management Corp., Allstate Insurance Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Trustees-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 30, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aston Baker, pro se, Brooklyn, NY; Vivian M. Williams, Vivian Williams & Associates, P.C., New York, NY, for appellant.

Charles E. Simpson, Windels, Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, New York, NY, for appellees Charles E. Simpson and Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP.

Richard A. Klass, Brooklyn, NY, for appellees Stanley Gallant, Galster Capital LLC, Galster Management Corp.

Bruce W. Farquharson, Feldman, Rudy, Kirby & Farquharson, P.C., Westbury, NY, for appellee Allstate Insurance Company.

Jacqueline M. Della Chiesa (Debra Lynne Wabnik, on the brief), Stagg, Terenzi, Confusione & Wabnik LLP, Garden City, NY, for appellee JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Before: WINTER, CABRANES, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This Court has not previously determined whether claims of professional malpractice based on services rendered pursuant to a Title 11 bankruptcy petition, see 11 U.S.C. § 101 et seq., fall within the bankruptcy court's "original but not exclusive jurisdiction." 28 U.S.C. § 1334(b). We now join several of our sister circuits in holding that appellant's claim that he was afforded substandard...

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