United States Tenth Circuit

In a bankruptcy case raising the issue of whether a Chapter 7 trustee may bring claims that a Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession could not, a judgment against the trustee is affirmed where the trustee is barred in the circumstances of this case from bringing a derivative claim on behalf of a creditors' committee after conversion to Chapter 7.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/13/2007
• Published 02/14/2007

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before TYMKOVICH, McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and EAGAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• D. Bruce Coles, Fish & Coles, Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bart B. Burnett, Pearson, Horowitz, & Burnett, P.C. (Robert M. Horowitz, Pearson, Horowitz, & Burnett, P.C., Denver, Colorado, and George B. Hofmann, Parsons Kinghorn Harris, P.C., Salt Lake City, Utah, with him on the brief), Denver, Colorado, for Defendant-Appellee.