United States Fifth Circuit

Judgment in favor of a bankruptcy trustee involving a bankruptcy estate's recovery of certain relief funds is reversed where a crop disaster-relief payment authorized by legislation enacted after the debtor filed for bankruptcy was not property of the bankruptcy estate.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2006
• Published 01/30/2006

Judges

• PRADO, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, Chief Judge, and REAVLEY, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, SMITH, WIENER, BARKSDALE, EMILIO M. GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, DENNIS, CLEMENT, PRADO, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Willis Berry (argued), Rayville, LA, George F. Fox, Jr., McIntosh, Fox & Lancaster, Lake Providence, LA, for Appellant., Lucy G. Sikes (argued), Alexandria, LA, pro se., Richard Lieb, St. John's University, School of Law, Jamaica, NY, Bill DeLoney Bensinger (argued), Law Offices of Bill Bensinger, Birmingham, AL, for Susan Block-Lieb, Ralph Brubaker, S. Elizabeth Gibson, Jonathan C. Lipson, Charles W. Mooney, Jr., Theresa J. Pulley Radwan, Nancy B. Rapoport, Robert K. Rasmussen and Robert M. Zinman, Amici Curiae.