PNH, Inc. v. Alfa Laval Flow, Inc., No. 11-957 (cert. petition filed February 3, 2011)

Question Presented: Do states retain the power to permit traditional state-law claims for abuses of process relating to bankruptcy proceedings, as the Texas Supreme Court and the Third Circuit have held, or does the federal Bankruptcy Code preempt the field of state-law tort actions that rely in part on misconduct in a bankruptcy proceeding, as the Ohio Supreme Court held below, in agreement with other state supreme courts and the Ninth Circuit?

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