IN RE SALEM MORTG. CO.

No. 84-1539.

783 F.2d 626 (1986)

In re SALEM MORTGAGE COMPANY, et al., Debtors. Frank J. KELLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, Salem Mortgage Co., et al., Defendants, Salem Mortgage Company, Fidelity Fund, Inc., Fidelity Securities Corporation, Nationwide Mortgage Company, Mutual Mortgage Company, Thomas J. Barrow, Trustee in Bankruptcy, Antonio Foglia, Ernest Pippin and Toni K. Scherschun, Defendants-Appellants, v. Bruce NODINE, Donald Brown, Marion Reddick, Winfrel and Magnolia Peterson, Amy Stevens, Sadie Soto, Cassandra Debonville, Harry Johnson, Richard Androvic, Gilbert Tucker, Mary Bankston, Ethel Jeffries and Irene and Virginia Puspustelak, Plaintiffs-Objectors/Appellees, Frances Kukowski, B & B Machining Retirement Trust, Bernard and Donna Bowman, Clawson Tool Profit Sharing Trust, Feg Gage Pension Trust, Wilbur and Carolyn Humphries, Mandeco Design Service Profit Sharing Trust, Fred or Betty McMurray, George and Betty Ofiara, James and Joan Thiesen, Elizabeth Thurwachter, Angelo or Mary Ann Timonte, Dr. Bruce Troutman Pension and Profit Sharing Trust, Two Plus Three Plus Four, and Varney Trucking Company Profit Sharing Trust, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 11, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Atty. Gen. of Mich., Luis F. Fernandez (argued), Frederick H. Hoffecker, Robert S. Hertzberg, Lansing, Mich., for Frank J. Kelley.

John A. Anderson, John B. Kemp (argued), James Steffel, Birmingham, Mich., for Barrow.

Clark D. Cunningham (argued) Mich. Legal Services, Detroit, Mich., for Virginia Pustelak, Irene Pustelak, Sadie Soto, Winfrel Peterson and Magnolia Peterson.

Irwin M. Alterman, Southfield, Mich., for Salem Mortg. Co., Mut. Mortg. Co., Fidelity Fund, Inc. and Fidelity Securities Corp.

Arnold S. Schafer, Robert Hertzberg (argued), Birmingham, Mich., for defendants-appellants.

Mark Magidson, Detroit, Mich., for Bangston, Conklin, Johnson, Tucker, Soto, Debonville and Androvic.

James A. Keedy, Legal Services of Southeastern Mich., Jackson, Mich., Michael Chielens, Legal Aid of Western Mich., Grand Rapids, Mich., William Coash, Legal Services of Southcentral Mich., Battle Creek, Mich., for plaintiff-objectors/appellees.

L. Nicholas Treinen, James R. Porritt, Jr., Parenti & Treinen, Lake Orion, Mich., for defendants-intervenors.

Before MARTIN and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges; and EDWARDS, Senior Circuit Judge.


BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This case presents the question of the extent of the district court's bankruptcy jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1471(b)1 over civil proceedings "related to cases under title 11."2 Although section 1471 was effectively repealed by the Bankruptcy Amendments and Federal Judgeship Act of 1984,3 the...

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