Legal Opinion
Stephen Smith Home for the Aged, Inc. v. Mercy Douglass Center, Inc. (In Re Stephen Smith Home for the Aged, Inc.)
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 10, 1987No. Misc. No. 87-0455, Bankruptcy 85-05124F, Adv. No. 86-0626FPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
LUDWIG, District Judge.
AND NOW, this 8th day of December, 1987, after independent review of the recommendation and opinion in support thereof of United States Bankruptcy Judge Bruce Fox, it is ORDERED that:
1. The opinion is approved and adopted.
2. The motion to abstain is granted. The bankruptcy court will therefore not hear the debtor’s complaint for declaratory judgment and for accounting. 28 U.S.C. § 1334(c)(1). See In Re Corporacion de Servicios Medicos Hospitalarios, 805 F.2d 440, 442-43 (1st Cir.1986) (only district court has jurisdictional authority to issue abstention orders in…
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