United States First Circuit

Massachusetts does not have priority to unsecured debt owed by a bankrupt medical center, as reimbursement for unemployment benefits it paid out to employees laid off after the bankruptcy; only those claims that are for reimbursement as a result of postpetition employment should receive administrative expense priority.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2002
• Published 05/31/2002

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, and CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Ganong, Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, and Daniel J. Hammond, Assistant Attorney General, were on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Harold B. Murphy with whom D. Ethan Jeffery and Hanify & King were on brief for appellee.