Read THE RETIRED PILOTS ASS'N OF US AIRWAYS, INC. v. US AIRWAYS GROUP, 03-1825

Appellant's challenge to the bankruptcy's court distress termination order is equitably moot because the termination order had been fully consumated and the company's reorganization plan had been implemented by the time the challenge was in district court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2004
• Published 05/27/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and KING, Circuit Judges, and QUARLES, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Jeffrey Gans, Thelan, Reid & Priest, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Edward Joseph Meehan, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Sherwin S. Kaplan, Thelan, Reid & Priest, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellant.   John Wm. Butler, Jr., John K. Lyons, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, L.L.P., Chicago, Illinois;  Alesia Ranney-Marinelli, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, L.L.P., New York, New York;  E. Duncan Getchell, Jr., McGuirewoods, L.L.P., Richmond, Virginia;  Lawrence E. Rifken, Douglas M. Foley, McGuirewoods, L.L.P., McLean, Virginia;  Janet L. Dhillon, Alexander W. Powell, Jr., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for Appellee.