OVERSEAS INNS S.A. P.A. v. U.S.

No. 89-1691.

911 F.2d 1146 (1990)

OVERSEAS INNS S.A. P.A., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 22, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Pew, Jr., William D. Jordan, Jackson & Walker, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Joan Oppenheimer, Gary R. Allen, Chief, David English Cormack, Appellate Section, Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Marvin Collins, U.S. Atty., Dallas, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, GEE, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.


BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

Overseas Inns S.A. P.A. (Overseas), seeks to recover income taxes assessed and collected by the IRS, primarily contending that comity should be extended to a Luxembourg court approved plan of reorganization which treated the IRS as a general, rather than a priority, creditor. The district court declined to do so and granted the United States summary judgment. Finding no error, we AFFIRM.

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The parties stipulated in district...

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