Umb Bank, Nat'l Ass'n v. Linn Energy (In re Linn Energy, L. L.C.)

LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:

This case requires us to interpret a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan. One class of lenders extended billions of dollars of credit to the debtor and its affiliates. The class argues that the language of the bankruptcy plan entitles it to over thirty million dollars in post-petition default interest. We conclude the plan does not so provide and AFFIRM.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

We will refer to the debtors, Linn Energy, LLC and its affiliates, as the "Linn Debtors" or the "Debtors." One class of its creditors, whom we will call the "Linn Lenders" or at times…