United States Fourth Circuit

In case involving bankrupt ship repair and reconditioning company, an award of interpleaded funds to unpaid subcontractors rather than to the government contractor they were owed to is vacated where the funds constitute part of the bankruptcy estate of the contractor.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/01/2006
• Decided 02/09/2007
• Published 02/09/2007

Judges

• Before MOTZ and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and David A. FABER, Chief United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Alan M. Grochal, Tydings & Rosenberg, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant.  Robert K. Gross, Eaton & Van Winkle, New York, New York, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Alan Van Praag, Eaton & Van Winkle, New York, New York, James W. Bartlett, III, Alexander M. Giles, Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, P.C., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee Ocean Technical Services Corporation;  J. Stephen Simms, Simms Showers, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee McAllister Towing of Baltimore, Incorporated.