Stichting Ter Behartiging Van de Belangen Van Oudaandeelhouders In Het Kapitaal Van Saybolt International B.V. v. Schreiber

Judge SACK concurs in the majority opinion and in a separate opinion.

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.

We find that this case turns on two questions of New York law that are important, recurring, and undecided: 1) whether New Jersey or New York law applies to the question of whether the plaintiffs assignment of claim is valid, and 2) whether an apparent authority relationship existed between the two defendants. We therefore certify those questions to the New York Court of Appeals.

I. Background

This legal malpractice action, which has been pending in federal court for five years, returns to us after…