W.R. Grace & Co. v. Chakarian

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating that for a finding of “related to” jurisdiction indemnification rights must accrue upon the filing of the claim without the intervention of another lawsuit
• finding no “related to” jurisdiction where a civil action “would affect the bankruptcy proceeding only through the intervention of yet another lawsuit”
• finding no \related to\ jurisdiction where \an entirely separate action would be necessary for any liability incurred by [defendant] to have an impact on [debtor's] estate\
• bankruptcy court did not apply law of the case doctrine when state court suit did not involve the same parties and issues
• “The existence of a bankruptcy proceeding itself has never been and cannot be an all-purpose grant of jurisdiction.”
• “While § 105(a) of the Bankruptcy Code allows a bankruptcy court to issue any order necessary to carry out the provisions of the Code, it does not provide an independent source of federal subject matter jurisdiction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).