United States Third Circuit

In Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of a news publisher and its affiliates, district court's judgment denying plaintiffs' requests for the allowance of administrative expense claims under 11 U.S.C. section 503(b), arising from a defamation action, is affirmed where, although the district court was incorrect in holding that the appeal is equitably moot, the bankruptcy and district courts were correct in sustaining the debtors objection to the administrative expense requests on the basis that the plaintiffs cannot advance a sustainable cause of action to support their requests, as a link and reference to an allegedly defamatory article on the Internet did not amount to a republication of the article.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/26/2012
• Published 07/26/2012

Judges

• Ambro

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel