United States Second Circuit

The bankruptcy court erred in granting standing, pursuant to Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9019, to plaintiff's creditors to settle plaintiff's claims over its objections.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/08/2005
• Decided 09/12/2005
• Published 09/14/2005

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Alex Kress (Dennis J. O'Grady and Glenn D. Curving, of counsel;  Stephen J. Amoriello III and Ryan G. Foley, on the brief), Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP, Morristown, NJ, for Debtors-Appellants., G. Eric Brunstad, Jr., Bingham McCutchen LLP, Hartford, CT, Amicus Curiae urging reversal.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lawrence P. Gottesman, Bryan Cave LLP, New York, NY, (Rebecca Tapie and Karine Louis, of counsel, Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP, New York, NY), for Appellee Juno Online Services, Inc., Laurence May (Rochelle R. Weisburg, of counsel, and Leonard H. Gerson, on the brief), Angel & Frankel, P.C., New York, NY, for Appellee Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors., Thomas R. Califano (Eric B. Miller, of counsel), Piper Rudnick LLP, Baltimore, MD, for Appellees WorldCom Technologies, Inc. and UUNET Technologies, Inc.