IN RE MOENS

Nos. 85-1499, 85-1689 and 85-2071.

800 F.2d 173 (1986)

In re Ralph J. MOENS and Mary Lou Moens, Debtors. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP., as receiver of the Atkinson Trust & Savings Bank, Plaintiff-Appellee, and United States of America, Intervenor Appellee, v. Ralph J. MOENS and Mary Lou Moens, Defendants-Appellants, and Appeal of UNITED STATES of America, Intervenor Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 4, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry M. Barash, Barash, Stoerzbach & Henson, Galesburg, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Harold J. Krent, Dept. of Justice, Civil Div., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before COFFEY and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges, and WILL, Senior District Judge.


RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

The appellants, debtors who had filed a petition in bankruptcy which was referred to the United States Bankruptcy Court, challenge that court's authority to adjudicate their claims. They allege that The Bankruptcy Amendments and Federal Judgeship Act of 1984, Pub.L. No. 98-353, 98 Stat. 333, the Act which created the present bankruptcy court system, violates the United States Constitution by improperly...

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