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SAMUEL C. ENNIS & CO., INC. v. WOODMAR REALTY CO.

No. 75-2104.

542 F.2d 45 (1976)

SAMUEL C. ENNIS & COMPANY, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. WOODMAR REALTY COMPANY, an Indiana Corporation, and Owen W. Crumpacker, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 21, 1976.

As Corrected September 24, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmond J. Leeney, Carl N. Carpenter, Hammond, Ind., Gilbert Gruenberg, Gary, Ind., William J. O'Connor, Charles Levin, Hammond, Ind., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas T. Crumpacker, Aspen, Colo., Owen W. Crumpacker, Richard A. Miller, Hammond, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and TONE, Circuit Judges.

TONE, Circuit Judge.

We must decide in this case whether, in light of 28 U.S.C. § 2283 and its relitigation exception, a federal court before which a bankruptcy proceeding was conducted may protect parties and attorneys in that proceeding and persons doing business with the trustee from relitigation in a state court of issues determined in that proceeding. The District Court answered in the negative because of the statute. We reverse.

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