Legal Opinion
Dill Oil Company, LLC v. Stephens
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 15, 2013No. 11-6309PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents an issue of first impression for our circuit: whether the 2005 amendments to the Bankruptcy Code exempt individual Chapter 11 debtors from the absolute priority rule. The bankruptcy court answered this question in the affirmative. It therefore confirmed the Debtors’ proposed plan of reorganization over certain creditors’ objections that the plan violated the absolute priority rule. On appeal, the bankruptcy appellate panel certified the case for direct appeal. Exercising our jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 158(d)(2)(A) & 158(a)(1), we now…
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