United States Seventh Circuit

In a dispute in a bankruptcy over the trustee's disposition of certain rights to harvested methane gas, the bankruptcy court's settlement approval is affirmed since the appellants' alternate settlement proposal, though beneficial, was legally impossible.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/07/2005
• Decided 12/09/2005
• Published 12/09/2005

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory J. Jordan (argued), Rooks Pitts, Chicago, IL, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Diane F. Klotnia, Miller, Shakman & Hamilton, Chicago, IL, for Trustee-Appellee., Phillip L. Comella (argued), Seyfarth & Shaw, William I. Kohn, Patricia J. Fokuo (argued), Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago, IL, for Appellees., Floyd D. Perkins, Ungaretti & Harris, Chicago, IL, for Debtor-Appellee.