BOHACK CORP. v. GULF & WESTERN INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 190, Docket 79-5023.

607 F.2d 258 (1979)

In the Matter of The BOHACK CORPORATION, Debtor-in-Possession, SHAW & LEVINE and The Bohack Corporation, Appellees, v. GULF & WESTERN INDUSTRIES, INC., Charles G. Bluhdorn, Don F. Gaston, Martin Davis, Lawrence Levinson, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and Nicholas Salgo, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Stanley Shaw, Garden City N.Y. (Shaw & Levine, Garden City, N. Y., Jesse I. Levine, William M. Rifkin, Garden City, N. Y., of counsel), for appellees.

Arthur L. Liman, New York City (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Max Gitter, David Elkind, Robert Abrahams, New York City, of counsel), for appellants Gulf & Western Industries, Inc., Charles G. Bluhdorn, Don F. Gaston, Martin Davis and Lawrence Levinson.

Arnold Bauman, New York City (Shearman & Sterling, John T. Klug, New York City, of counsel), for Appellant Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett.

Michael Sullivan, New York City (Moore, Berson, Lifflander & Mewhinney, Earle K. Moore, New York City, of counsel), for appellant Nicholas Salgo.

Harvey Goldstein, Finkel, Goldstein & Berzow, New York City, for Official Creditors Committee.

Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, New York City (Conrad B. Duberstein, New York City, of counsel), for Official Creditors Committee.

Before LUMBARD, SMITH and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.


MULLIGAN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an April 6, 1979 order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Chief Judge Jacob Mishler. That order reversed two orders of the Bankruptcy Court, Parente, J., dated May 23, 1978 and October 27, 1978, which had revoked the authority of the appellee, the law firm of Shaw & Levine, to act as special counsel to the Bohack Corporation (Bohack...

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