Legal Opinion
City of Springfield v. Ostrander (In Re LAN Tamers, Inc.)
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 19, 2003No. 02-2309PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This case involves competing claims of the. Springfield, Massachusetts public schools and the creditors of LAN Tamers, Inc., a bankrupt company, to a million-plus dollars. The case arises from the intersection of the federal Bankruptcy Code and the federal “E-Rate” program, created by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to encourage public schools to connect to the internet. The E-Rate program subsidizes these internet connections with funds extracted from the telecommunications industry and administered by a private not-for-profit corporation, the Universal Service…
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