Com-1 Info, Inc. v. Wolkowitz (In Re Maximus Computers, Inc.)
United States Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KLEIN, Bankruptcy Judge.
These interlocutory appeals constitute an attempt by defendants in a fraudulent transfer action that is being prosecuted for the benefit of the estate to disqualify opposing counsel because a creditor is paying the counsel’s fees.
In an effort to derail state court fraud litigation against them, defendant corporate insiders had their defunct corporation file a chapter 7 bankruptcy in which there can be no discharge. The plaintiffs state court counsel was then engaged to prosecute a bankruptcy fraudulent transfer action. The defendants appeal two orders parrying…
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