In Re Tampa Chain Company, Inc., Debtor. Barbara Balaber-Strauss, as Trustee Tampa Chain Company, Inc., Plaintiff v. Wolf Reichard and Leslie Blond

Defendants Wolf Reichard and Leslie Blond appeal pro se from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Robert L. Carter, Judge, dismissing for lack of prosecution their appeal to that court from an order of the United States Bankruptcy Court. For the reasons below, we stay the present appeal as to Reichard and affirm the order of the district court as to Blond.

The Stay as to Reichard

Defendants filed their appeal to this Court in April 1987. On June 22, 1987, Reichard filed a Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition in bankruptcy court. That petition…