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· 5/26/1999

Trefny v. Bear Stearns Securities Corp.

Citations

  • 243 B.R. 300
  • 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21130
  • 1999 WL 1204858

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that trustee’s causes of action were improperly characterized as turnover and fraudulent conveyance and that trustee was therefore bound by debtor’s prepetition arbitration agreement
  • concluding that trustee’s causes of action were improperly characterized as turnover and fraudulent conveyance and that trustee was therefore bound by debtor’s prepetition arbitration agreement
  • \[T]he law is clear that a nonsignatory to an agreement containing an arbitration clause may be treated as bound by the arbitration agreement ... [through] subrogation.\
  • “Because Congress could not have intended to extend a bankruptcy court’s jurisdictional reach beyond permissible bounds, Congress did not intend the exclusive jurisdiction provision in 78eee(b
  • “[Movant] will suffer irreparable injury absent a stay because it will be forced to participate in discovery under court order and its right to arbitrate the dispute will be jeopardized by such discovery.”

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Judges: Rosenthal

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