IN RE ARNOLD PRINT WORKS, INC.

No. 86-1626.

815 F.2d 165 (1987)

In re ARNOLD PRINT WORKS, INC., Debtor. ARNOLD PRINT WORKS, INC., Appellant, v. Joseph APKIN, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 30, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip J. Hendel with whom Joseph H. Reinhardt and Hendel, Collins, Stocks & Newton, P.C., Springfield, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

Robert C. Ware with whom Timothy J. Morey and Freedman, DeRosa & Rondeau, North Adams, Mass., were on brief, for appellees.

Alan L. Braunstein, Joseph Braunstein and Riemer & Braunstein, Boston, Mass., on brief, for Commercial Law League of America, amicus curiae.

Before BOWNES, BREYER and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.


BREYER, Circuit Judge.

Assume that B, a bankrupt company in the midst of federal bankruptcy proceedings, brings an ordinary state law contract claim against D, a private party, seeking money that D allegedly owed B before B went bankrupt. In Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co., 458 U.S. 50, 102 S.Ct. 2858, 73 L.Ed.2d 598 (1982), the Supreme Court held that federal bankruptcy judges lacked the constitutional...

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