Legal Opinion
Dempsey v. United States Bankruptcy Court (In Re Bond)
District Court, C.D. Illinois
Decided June 29, 2000No. 99-3146PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RICHARD MILLS, District Judge.
The old judge had a picture, prominently displayed, of an English barrister ■flourishing an oyster on a fork as two countrymen, holding the shells, looked on agape. Underneath was the couplet:
A pearly shell for you and me;
The oyster is the lawyer’s fee.
HaRvey O’ConnoR, Mellon’s Millions, The Biography of a Fortune 8 (New York: The John Day Company) (1933).
After the bankruptcy court denied her request for additional attorney’s fees, Vicky A. Dempsey felt more like the two English countrymen than the English barrister, and thus, she appealed the bankruptcy…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- In Re WildmanUnited States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Illinois · 1987
- In Re Pettibone Corp.United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Illinois · 1987
- In Re Jensen-Farley Pictures, Inc.United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Utah · 1985
- In The Matter Of U.S. Golf CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
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3Cited by4 opinions
- In the Matter of Sheldon BOND, Debtor. Appeal of Vicki A. DempseyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2001
- In Re HightUnited States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. Texas · 2008
- In Re FryUnited States Bankruptcy Court, C.D. Illinois · 2001
- Dempsey, Vicki A. v. US Bankruptcy CourtCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2001