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· 5/27/1994

In the Matter Of: Unr Industries, Inc., Debtors. Appeals of Unarco Bloomington Factory Workers

Citations

  • 20 F.3d 766

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that \[t]he long delay between the bankruptcy court's confirmation of the plan and the district court's disposition of objections to that action laid the foundation for the conclusion that the plan is beyond challenge\
  • noting that “[t]he long delay between the bankruptcy court’s confirmation of the plan and the district court's disposition of objections to that action laid the foundation for the conclusion that the plan is beyond challenge”
  • explaining also difference between “inability to alter the outcome (real mootness) and unwillingness to alter the outcome (‘equitable mootness’)”
  • enumerating \[s]everal [statutory] provisions ... provid[ing] that courts should keep their hands off consummated transactions\
  • “We ask not whether this case is moot, ‘equitably' or otherwise, but whether it is prudent to upset the plan of reorganization at this late date.”
  • “There is a big difference between inability to alter the outcome (real mootness) and unwillingness to alter the outcome (‘equitable mootness’).”

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Judges: Coffey, Easterbrook, Curtin

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