United States Fifth Circuit

Automatic stay provision under 11 USC 362 does not apply to non-debtor co-defendants that do not by formal tie or contractual indemnification share identity of interests with the debtor, even if they may have other indemnification claims against the debtor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/02/2002
• Published 01/02/2002

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before DeMOSS, PARKER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brent M. Rosenthal, Baron & Budd, Dallas, TX, for Baron & Budd, PC and Provost & Umphrey, Law Offices, LLP, Amici Curiae., John A. Cowan, Provost & Umphrey, Beaumont, TX, for Provost & Umphrey, Amicus Curiae., Elihu Inselbuch, Caplin & Drysdale, New York City, Peter Van Lockwood, Trevor W. Swett, III, Caplin & Drysdale, Washington, DC, for Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants of Federal-Mogul Global Inc., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles S. Siegel,Peter A. Kraus, Waters & Kraus, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Shelby A. Jordan, Harlin C. Womble, Jr., Nathaniel Peter Holzer, Jordan, Hyden, Womble & Culbreth, Corpus Christi, TX, Mitchell C. Chaney, Eduardo Roberto Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Colvin & Chaney, Brownsville, TX, Michael H. Reed, Anne Marie Schwab, Pepper Hamilton, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendant-Appellant.