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Docket No. 09-5122-bk (L) (2d Cir. June 28, 2011); 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 13177; 2011 WL 2536101
Ruling:
A debtor-issuer’s premature payments to redeem its commercial paper constitute “settlement payments” and are, thus, shielded from the exercise of a bankruptcy trustee’s avoidance powers...
Judge(s):
Circuit Judges John M. Walker, José A. Cabranes, and District Judge John G. Koeltl (sitting by designation) presiding. Judge Koeltl dissenting.
___F3d. ___(6th Cir. 2011); Case No. 10-1182 (June 27, 2011)
Ruling:
The Sixth Circuit reversed in part and affirmed in part the district court’s granting of summary judgment in favor of the Defendant Leikin Ingber & Winters PC ("Leiken") that it had not violated...