Legal Opinion
Phar-Mor, Inc. v. Coopers & Lybrand
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 11, 1994No. 93-3368PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents the interesting and important question whether § 1109(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 1109(b), which provides that a creditors’ committee “may raise and may appear and be heard on any issue in a case [under Chapter 11],” gives a creditors’ committee the unconditional right to intervene in a proceeding in federal district court which is “related to” a bankruptcy case. This question arises in the context of a lawsuit filed by Phar-Mor, Inc. against its auditors, the accounting firm of Coopers and Lybrand (“Coopers”), alleging…
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