United States Second Circuit

A judgment dismissing as untimely an appeal from a bankruptcy court order authorizing a bankruptcy trustee to enter into a settlement agreement is affirmed where the order at issue was a "final order" which triggered a ten-day window to file a notice of appeal.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/24/2006
• Published 02/28/2006

Judges

• MINER, Circuit Judge., Before:  WINTER, MINER, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William F. Costigan (Joshua F. Nessen and Stephanie D. Drawdy, of counsel), Costigan & Company, P.C., New York, NY, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• William T. Russell, Jr., Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP, New York, NY, for Appellee.