Legal Opinion
In Re Baldridge
United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Indiana
Decided March 22, 1999No. 19-20329PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION
ROBERT E. GRANT, Bankruptcy Judge.
There is just no good substitute for filing a proof of claim. By comparison to that clear and relatively simple demonstration that a pre-petition creditor should share in a distribution by the bankruptcy trustee, all arguments for some type of effective alternative finish, if at all, a distant second. See e.g., In re DeVries Grain & Fertilizer, Inc., 12 F.3d 101 (7th Cir.1993) (creditor’s pre-conversion request for payment of administrative expense could not be treated as a proper substitute for a proof of claim); In re Johns-Manville Corp., 53 B.R.…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- In the Matter of Gerald Lewis Tarnow, Debtor. Appeal of Commodity Credit CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- In Re DennisUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. New Jersey · 1999
- Dade County School District v. Johns-Manville Corp. (In Re Johns-Manville Corp.)United States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York · 1985
- In Re SchafferUnited States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Illinois · 1994
- In Re MacIasUnited States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Texas · 1996
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3Cited by24 opinions
- IN Re: Carmen Bateman, Debtor, --- Universal American Mortgage Company v. Carmen BatemanCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2003
- In Re HudsonUnited States Bankruptcy Court, W.D. Michigan · 2001
- In re DumainUnited States Bankruptcy Court, S.D. New York · 2013
- In Re KresslerUnited States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2000
- In re MartinezUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Puerto Rico · 2014
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