In Re Rcs Engineered Products Company, Inc., Debtor. Spartan Tube and Steel, Inc. v. Daniel C. Himmelspach Railcar Specialties, Inc.

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, Spartan Tube and Steel, Inc. (“Spartan”), appeals from an order of the district court affirming a bankruptcy court’s judgment. The bankruptcy court held that only a debtor’s bankruptcy trustee has standing to assert an alter ego claim against the debtor’s parent company and stayed Spartan’s state court alter ego action against the parent company pursuant to § 362(a)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code. . The bankruptcy court’s judgment rested on the court’s determination that under Michigan law an alter ego claim constitutes property of the debtor’s estate for…