Legal Opinion
Lockyer v. Mirant Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 9, 2005No. 04-15024PublishedCited by 671 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
The Attorney General of California, Bill Lockyer, sues under section 16 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 26, seeking divestiture by the Mirant defendants (collectively, “Mirant”) of three electrical generating plants. The district court granted a stay pursuant to Landis v. North American Co., 299 U.S. 248, 57 S.Ct. 163, 81 L.Ed. 153 (1936), pending the resolution of Mir-ant’s Chapter 11 petitions in a bankruptcy court in Texas. We hold that the district court had jurisdiction to determine whether the automatic stay of the Texas bankruptcy court applied to the…
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