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New Cases For the Week of April 28,
2003 - May 2, 2003
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April
30, 2003
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Case
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Court
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Holding
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In
re City of Desert Hot Springs
(DBN Subscription Required) |
9th
Cir. |
A
bankruptcy court's order declining to
dismiss a Chapter 9 case on bad faith
grounds was interlocutory. |
Basler
v. Department of Justice
(DBN Subscription Required) |
9th
Cir. |
Sovereign
immunity bars a suit filed against a
United States trustee acting in his
official capacity based on acts conducted
within the course and scope of his
employment. |
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April
28, 2003
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Case
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Court
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Holding
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In
re Bressman
(DBN Subscription Required) |
3rd
Cir. |
A
trustee's notice to law firms, just before
they were to receive payment from
allegedly non-estate sources, that the
trustee was investigating whether the
funds might be estate property was not
sufficient to give the firms
"knowledge of the voidability of the
transactions" within the meaning of
11 USC 550(b)(1). |
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