United States Fifth Circuit

Employee not entitled to an administrative priority claim for severance pay from the debtor, where he executed an employment contract containing a severance pay clause about five months before the debtor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief, but was terminated three weeks after the filing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/30/2002
• Published 04/30/2002

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, SMITH and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• R. Terry Bell,Bell, Nunnally & Martin, Dallas, TX, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Mark Chevallier, David Lynn Woods, McGuire, Craddock & Strother, Dallas, TX, for Appellees.