Giles E. Miller v. Meinhard-Commercial Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding an unsecured creditor’s post-confirmation suit against a secured creditor for fraudulent misrepresentation at a creditors’ meeting constituted a collateral attack on the confirmation order
• “[I]t is a collateral attack if it must in some fashion overrule a previous judgment.”
• claims involved same cause of action, plaintiff had notice of fraudulent acts prior to judgment and elected not to raise them
• \[a]n arrangement confirmed by a bankruptcy court has the effect of a judgment rendered by a district court\
• action challenging integrity of court’s judgment is impermissible collateral attack; an action is a collateral attack if a court must in some fashion overrule a previous judgment
• “Even though an action has an independent purpose and contemplates some other relief, it is a collateral attack if it must in some fashion overrule a previous judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).