Matter of Dynamite Food Enterprises, Inc.

DECISION AND ORDER

SAUL SEIDMAN, Bankruptcy Judge.

The involuntary petition in this case was filed on March 16, 1978, 1 prior to the enactment of Pub.L. No. 95-598, 92 Stat. 2549 (1978) (Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978) (Code), on November 6, 1978. The provisions of the Code made changes not only in the structure of the court but also in the substantive law and procedure regulating cases to be filed under the Code. Because of this, the effective date of the Code was fixed at October 1, 1979. 2

In the instant case an officer of the bankrupt, Charles Katz, refused to testify at a continued first…