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MATTER OF WOOD

No. 86-4510.

825 F.2d 90 (1987)

In the MATTER OF James P. WOOD, M.D. and Carol B. Wood, Debtors. Dr. Arthur E. WOOD, III, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dr. James P. WOOD, Carol Wood, Woodrow Barham & Wayne Clinic, P.A., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 26, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Waide, Estes & Waide, Tupelo, Miss., for plaintiff-appellant.

Craig M. Geno, Floyd M. Sulser, Bennett, Lotterhos, Sulser & Geno, Jackson, Miss., Stanford Young, Waynesboro, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

William H. Leech, Thomas E. Williams, Kenneth W. Barton, Jackson, Miss., for Barham.

Before WISDOM, WILLIAMS, and HILL, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This appeal calls upon us to decipher the jurisdictional provisions of the Bankruptcy Amendments and Federal Judgeship Act of 1984. A brief history of the Act may cast some light on the nature of our task.

Years of effort to reform the bankruptcy laws culminated with the enactment of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978.1 As part of its overall goal to create a more efficient procedure for administering bankruptcies...

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