NICHOLS v. CURTIS

9352-9353, 9354, 9354A, 9355, 112297/08, 9356.

2013 NY Slip Op 01776

STEVI BROOKS NICHOLS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. W. ROBERT CURTIS, ETC., ET AL., Defendants-Respondents. MARIAN C. RICE, NONPARTY-Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided March 19, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stevi Brooks Nichols, appellant pro se.

Curtis & Associates, P.C., New York ( W. Robert Curtis of counsel), for W. Robert Curtis, Curtis & Riess-Curtis, P.C., and Curtis & Associates, P.C., respondents.

Cheryl L. Riess, respondent pro se.

L'Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, LLP, Garden City ( Matthew J. Bizzaro of counsel), for Marian C. Rice, respondent.

Before: Mazzarelli, J.P., Acosta, Freedman, Richter, Gische, JJ.


In this action, plaintiff claims her former attorneys committed malpractice, breached their fiduciary duty, and engaged in fraud, coercion and defamation in prosecuting a malpractice action against the attorneys who represented her in an action in 1988 against nonparty Morris Sales, Inc. Notwithstanding the court's characterization of their motion, defendants moved to dismiss the fifth through ninth causes of action only. Curtis and C & A, against whom the first four...

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