Legal Opinion
Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. v. BOKF, N.A.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 23, 2015No. 15-3259PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is an immense, and immensely complicated, bankruptcy proceeding, but the issue presented by the appeal is straightforward, enabling us to spare the reader a mountain of details. For both the bankruptcy judge, and the district judge to whom the bankruptcy judge’s ruling was unsuccessfully appealed, based their decisions on a question of statutory interpretation. We must decide simply whether their interpretation was correct.
Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, which the parties call CEOC, owns and operates a chain of casinos and is the leading debtor in a Chapter…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Law v. SiegelSupreme Court of the United States · 2014
- Zerand-Bernal Group, Inc. v. CoxCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
- Pfizer Inc. v. Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos (In Re Quigley Co.)Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2012
- In re Kmart Corp.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
- Fisher v. ApostolouCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1998
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3Cited by28 opinions
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