Simmons v. Johnson, Curney & Fields, P.C. (In Re Simmons)

How courts have described this case

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• denying request for mandatory abstention because movant had not yet commenced a proceeding in state court at the time of filing the motion for abstention in bankruptcy court
• denying request for mandatory abstention because movant had not yet commenced a proceeding in state court at the time of filing the motion for abstention in bankruptcy court
• where pre-petition advice dealt with the bankruptcy, “those claims of malpractice which originated out of pre- and post-petition advise [sic] of counsel concerning the bankruptcy itself are matters that fall within “arising in” jurisdiction.”
• “‘At least’ does not mean that there can be no other possibility”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).