Legal Opinion
In Re Hooker Investments, Inc.
United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 17, 1992No. 19-22258PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION DETERMINING THAT EXECUTIVE’S CLAIM IS NOT SEVERANCE PAY AND IS NOT AN EXPENSE OF ADMINISTRATION
PRUDENCE B. ABRAM, Bankruptcy Judge.
The court is required to determine whether the debtors should be required to pay over $4 million as an expense of administration to a terminated executive whose prepetition employment contract has been rejected. The executive claims that the monies constitute severance pay. The executive urges that several decisions of the Second Circuit decided under the former Bankruptcy Act mandate that his claim be paid in full as an expense of…
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