United States Third Circuit

Hartford Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Union Planters Bank, 530 U.S. 1 (2000), a Chapter 7 case which interpreted the text of 11 U.S.C. section 506(c) to foreclose anyone other than a trustee from seeking to recover administrative costs on its own behalf, does not prevent the Bankruptcy Court from authorizing plaintiff to sue on the estate's behalf to avoid a fraudulent transfer in a Chapter 11 proceeding.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/19/2003
• Decided 05/29/2003
• Published 05/29/2003

Judges

• Before BECKER, Chief Judge, SLOVITER, SCIRICA, ALITO, ROTH, McKEE, RENDELL, BARRY, AMBRO, FUENTES and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gary D. Sesser (Argued), James Gadsden, Roxanna D. Nazari, Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, New York, for Appellant Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Cybergenics Corp., Jonathan C. Lipson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, Amicus Law Professors in support of Appellant., G. Eric Brunstad, Jr. (Argued), Julia Frost-Davies, Rheba Rutkowski, Bryan D. Short, Tanya Tymchenko, Melissa G. Liazos, Justin M. O'Sullivan, Seth A. Schwartz, Rachel A. Viscomi, Steven M. Ackley-Ortiz, Serena D. Madar, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Boston, Amicus in support of Appellant., Teresa K.D. Currier, Eric Lopez Schnabel, Jeffrey R. Waxman, Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling, Wilmington, Daniel H. Golden, David H. Botter, Robert J. Stark, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, for Amicus Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc. in support of Appellant., Luc A. Despins, Susheel Kirpalani, Roy C. Studness, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, New York, for Amicus Official Committee of unsecured Creditors of Safety-Kleen Corp. in support of Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brian J. Molloy (Argued), Lauren D. Daloisio, Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Woodbridge, for Appellees Chinery and L&S Research Corporation., Bruce E. Fader (Argued), Scott A. Eggers, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, for Appellees Lincolnshire Management, Inc., George R. Hirsch (Argued), Elyssa S. Kates, Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C., Morristown, for Amicus Smurfit-Stone Corp. in support of Appellees., Keith Sharfman, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, Amicus in support of Appellees.