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Fehribach v. Ernst & Young LLP

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a suit charging a bankrupt company's auditor with negligence and breach of contract in failing to include a going-concern qualification in an audit...

In re: Teleglobe Communications Corp.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Evidence, M&A
In bankruptcy proceedings involving suits brought by a bankrupt company's subsidiaries against Canada's largest telecommunications company, which had...

McDougall v. Pioneer Ranch Ltd. P'Ship

Bankruptcy Law, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by a pension fund to recover withdrawal liability from a bankrupt trucking company, summary judgment for plaintiffs is affirmed where a...

In re: Kester

Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a bankruptcy trustee's adversary proceeding to compel turnover of a residence held by a self-settled living revocable trust, a judgment finding...

Nat'l Energy & Gas Transmission, Inc. v. Liberty Elec. Power, LLC

Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Public Utilities, Remedies
In a suit involving the payment of a termination fee for an electricity tolling agreement on behalf of a bankrupt party to the agreement, judgment for...

Benn v. Cole

Bankruptcy Law, Tax Law
A decision finding that Missouri law exempts tax refunds from a debtor's bankruptcy estate is reversed as Missouri Revised Statutes section 513.427 is...

Advanced Telecomm. Network, Inc. v. Allen

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Communications Law
In case involving a chapter 11 debtor seeking to recover certain transfers made before the company declared bankruptcy, order affirming bankruptcy...

In re AppliedTheory Corp.

Bankruptcy Law
Order affirming order of the bankruptcy court denying appellant committee of unsecured creditors authorization to assert a claim of equitable...

Eastman v. Union Pac. R.R. Co.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case involving a bankruptcy debtor who had been injured in an auto accident while in the employ of defendant-railroad, summary judgment against...

AT&T Corp. v. Clarendon Am. Ins. Co.

Bankruptcy Law, Communications Law, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law, Securities Law
In an action brought by AT&T against several insurance carriers for breaches of certain issued Director and Officer policies, dismissal of the...