Legal Opinion
In Re Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. California
Decided January 8, 2002No. 19-40228PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION REGARDING CHROMIUM CLAIMS
DENNIS MONTALI, Bankruptcy Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
The court has been asked to answer a question for which there is just a little help in the reported decisions and a little more found in national and local bankruptcy rules. That question is, may a bankruptcy judge, rather than a district judge, make the decision whether or not to abstain from having personal injury and wrongful death claims heard and tried before the district judge sitting as a bankruptcy court. For the reasons that follow, this bankruptcy judge concludes that he not only has the…
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