Howell Hydrocarbons, Inc. v. John Adams

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• concluding that fraud-based federal RICO claims against the officers of the debtor-corporation did not constitute core proceedings
• holding a written memo describing telephone conversation could only be admitted to show the conversation occurred, but otherwise constituted inadmissible hearsay
• “Moreover, the bankruptcy court would not have had jurisdiction over the [non-core ‘related’] claims against the defendants.”
• “Res judicata does not apply when the parties appear in one action in a representative capacity and in a subsequent action in an individual capacity.”
• “Res judicata does not apply when the parties appear in one action in a representative capacity and in a subsequent action in an individual capacity.”
• “Res judicata does not apply when the parties appear in one action in a representative capacity and in a subsequent action in an individual capacity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).