Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada v. Henderson (In re White)

RULING

LITTLE, District Judge.

Before the court is the trustee’s motion to disqualify the undersigned and every other district and appellate court judge sitting within the geographic Fifth Circuit from hearing this consolidated bankruptcy action. For the reasons that follow, we decline to be so emasculated.

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Between May 1992 and March 1993, eight related debtors1 filed petitions for bankruptcy relief in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The bankruptcy court later appointed a single trustee to represent the related debtors’ estates, and the trustee began…