Legal Opinion
Lasky v. Phones for All, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 30, 2002No. 01-10758PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
The issue in this case is whether Issac Lasky is entitled to an administrative priority claim for severance pay from the debtor when he executed an employment contract containing the severance pay clause about five months before the debtor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief, but was terminated three weeks after the filing. This court has not squarely faced this type of issue before. For the following reasons, we affirm the judgments denying administrative priority to the severance claim.
Lasky argues that his contractual right survived the bankruptcy filing to…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Nl Industries, Inc. v. Ghr Energy Corporation, Southern States Exploration, Inc., and S.A. Holditch & Associates, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1991
- Bachman v. Commercial Financial Services, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2001
- In re Phones for All, Inc.United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. Texas · 2000
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