Browning Manufacturing v. Mims (In Re Coastal Plains, Inc.)

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

For all but one of the claims at hand, the overarching issue is whether the bankruptcy court abused its discretion by not judicially estopping plaintiffs Industrial Clearinghouse and the Trustee for the bankruptcy estate of Coastal Plains from pursuing claims against Browning, Coastal’s largest unsecured creditor; the linchpin being whether nondisclosure of those claims in Coastal’s bankruptcy schedules or its stipulation for lifting the automatic bankruptcy stay to allow Coastal’s largest secured creditor to foreclose on Coastal’s assets, later…