National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa v. City Savings

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• finding that FIRREA’s jurisdictional bar to “ ‘any action’ includes actions by debtors as well as creditors, and is not limited to actions asserting a right to payment.”
• reserving question whether pendent appellate jurisdiction is available in any circumstances other than when “necessary to ensure meaningful review of an appealable order”
• finding that the plain meaning of § 1821(d)(13)(D)(i) includes declaratory judgment actions
• giving a definition of a defense as “a reason in law or fact why the plaintiff should not recover or establish what he seeks”
• relying on Black’s Law Dictionary (6th ed. 1990) and borrowing from the definition of claim in the Bankruptcy Code
• rescission is an affirmative defense and “a claim (or a counterclaim) is essentially an action which asserts a right to payment.”

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