Highland Capital Management LP v. Chesapeake Energy Corp. (In Re Seven Seas Petroleum, Inc.)

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 2008-03-31

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KING, Circuit Judge: A secured creditor of a bankrupt corporation was sued by an unsecured creditor of the same corporation in state court and removed the claims against it to federal court, asserting that the claims were property of the bankruptcy estate and that the unsecured creditor had no right to assert them. The bankruptcy court agreed that the claims were property of the…

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