United States v. Critical Fork Coal Corp. (In Re Critical Fork Coal Corp.)

JOINT OPINION AND ORDER

H. CLYDE PEARSON, Bankruptcy Judge.

The question before the Court is disposition of four proceedings “transferred” by the District Court for the Western District of Virginia to this Court. Three of the proceedings were “transferred” on the court’s own motion, and the fourth, Walden v. Tri-City Bank & Trust Co., was transferred on motion of plaintiff’s counsel.

Under the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (the Code), federal district court is granted original and exclusive jurisdiction of cases filed under title 11 of the United States Code. 28 U.S.C. § 1471(a). The district…