United States First Circuit

Administrative priority was properly given to costs awarded to defendants after they successfully defended a post-petition lawsuit brought against them by the bankruptcy trustee.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/21/2002
• Published 10/21/2002

Judges

• COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and B. FLETCHER , Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel C. Cohn with whom David B. Madoff and Cohn, Kelakos, Khoury, Madoff & Whitesell L.L.P., were on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark N. Parry with whom Moses & Singer L.L.P., David Lee Evans, D. Ethan Jeffery, and Hanify & King were on brief for appellees Gemini Partners, L.P., and Hicks, Muse & Co. (TX), Inc., D. Ethan Jeffery for appellee Furst., Kevin J. Lesinski, David C. Kurtz, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Thomas G. Rafferty, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore on brief for appellee Lazard Freres & Co. L.L.C.