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New Cases For the Week of April 29, 2002 - May
3, 2002
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May
1, 2002
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Holding
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In
re Phones For All, Inc.
(DBN Subscription Required) |
5th Cir. |
Despite
certain Second Circuit authority to the contrary, an employee
of a bankrupt debtor who signed a severance agreement
prepetition and was terminated postpetition was not entitled
to an administrative priority claim for his severance
benefits. |
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April
30, 2002
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Court
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Holding
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In
re SGPA
(DBN Subscription Required) |
3rd Cir. |
The
District Court did not err in dismissing a creditors'
committee's confirmation appeal on equitable mootness grounds.
There is no per se rule that requires an appellate court to
find all five equitable mootness factors. |
| In
re Stephens |
8th Cir.
BAP |
Although
a bankruptcy trustee was barred by the discharge injunction
from attempting to collect a claim of his debtor against
another, discharged debtor, the trustee was not barred from
seeking to recover property belonging to his debtor in the
possession of the discharged debtor. |
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