United States Tenth Circuit

Lump sum cash payments due upon termination and promised to employees when they executed employment contracts with debtor are not entitled to priority as administrative expenses in debtor's eventual bankruptcy because they were not made with the debtor in possession.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/24/2001
• Published 04/25/2001

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before HENRY, BRISCOE, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Greggory T. Colpitts of Magee & Colpitts, Tulsa, OK, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Larry M. Wolfson and Jerry L. Switzer, Jr. of Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, and Neal Tomlins and Ronald E. Goins of Tomlins & Goins, Tulsa, OK, for Appellee.