IN RE SOUTHEAST BANKING CORP.

No. 92-1600-CIV.

147 B.R. 267 (1992)

In re SOUTHEAST BANKING CORPORATION, Debtor. William A. BRANDT, Jr., as Trustee of Southeast Banking Corporation, Plaintiff, v. Florence S. BASSETT, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Harry Hood Bassett, Donald N. Boyce, Joseph A. Boyd, M. Anthony Burns, Edward D. Duda, Alfonso Fanjul, Jr., James J. Forese, R. Ray Goode, H.C. Henry, Jr., Paul L. Hill, Melvin Jacobs, Kenneth O. Johnson, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, James W. McLamore, William E. Moeller, William D. Plechaty, John E. Porta, Willie C. Robinson, Charles D. Towers, Jr., Dorothy C. Weaver, J. Steven Wilson, Charles J. Zwick, and John Does 1-25, Defendants. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, as Receiver of Southeast Bank, N.A., Intervenor/Plaintiff, v. William A. BRANDT, Jr., as Trustee of Southeast Banking Corporation, Defendant. William A. BRANDT, Jr., as Trustee of Southeast Banking Corporation, Plaintiff, v. Florence S. BASSETT, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Harry Hood Bassett, Donald N. Boyce, Joseph A. Boyd, M. Anthony Burns, Edward D. Duda, Alfonso Fanjul, Jr., James J. Forese, R. Ray Goode, H.C. Henry, Jr., Paul L. Hill, Melvin Jacobs, Kenneth O. Johnson, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, James W. McLamore, William E. Moeller, William D. Plechaty, John E. Porta, Willie C. Robinson, Charles D. Towers, Jr., Dorothy C. Weaver, J. Steven Wilson, Charles J. Zwick, and John Does 1-25, Defendants. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, in its capacity as Receiver of Southeast Bank, N.A., Intervenor/Plaintiff, v. William A. BRANDT, Jr., as Trustee of Southeast Banking Corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. Florida.

October 29, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Joseph Bainton, Richard F. Markert, Norma B. Levy, Jonathan S. Sanoff, Cheryl Spinner, Phillip M. Smith, Robert I. Goodman and Rachel Danish of Whitman & Ransom, New York City, for plaintiff William A. Brandt, Jr., as trustee of Southeast Banking Corp.

Robert T. Wright, Jr. of Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwoody & Cole, P.A., Miami, Fla., Stuart J. Baskin, Joseph F. Haggerty, William F. Ranieri and James R. Warnot, Jr. of Shearman & Sterling, New York City, Aaron S. Podhurst, Robert C. Josefsberg and Katherine W. Ezell of Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Oling & Perwin, Miami, Fla., Michael R. Smith, Charles K. McKnight, Michael W. Youtt and Griffin B. Bell of King & Spaulding, Atlanta, Ga., C. Harris Dittmar of Bedell, Dittmar, Devault & Pillans, P.A., Jacksonville, Fla., Hy Shapiro of Hogan, Greer & Shapiro, P.A., Miami, Fla., Michael G. Tannar of Kirschner, Main, Petrie, Graham & Tannar, Jacksonville, Fla., Jerome G. Snider, Grace M. Rodriguez and Nicholas A. Kronfeld of Davis Polk & Wardwell, Washington, D.C., Michael A. Nachwalter and Brian F. Spector of Kenny Nachwalter Seymour Arnold & Critchlow, P.A., Thomas Meeks of Floyd, Pearson, Richman, Greer, Weil Brumbaugh & Russomano, P.A., Barry D. Hunter of Paul, Landy, Bailey & Harper, Miami, Fla., Walter C. Carlson of Sidley & Austin, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

Patricia F. Bak of F.D.I.C., Washington, D.C., Karen Wilau, Randall L. Hughes, Richard C. Mitchell, Christopher P. Galanek, Daniel R. King, Jeffrey D. Raquin and Adrienne E. Marting of Powell Goldstein Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, Ga., James P. Paul and Juan A. Gonzalez of Haley, Sinagra & Perez, P.A., Henry N. Adorno and Neal B. Shniderman of Adorno & Zeder, P.A., Miami, Fla., for intervenor plaintiff F.D.I.C., in its capacity as receiver of Southeast Bank, N.A.

Mark D. Bloom of Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentel, P.A., Miami, Fla., for defendant William A. Brandt, Jr., as trustee of Southeast Banking Corp.


ORDER DENYING, WITHOUT PREJUDICE, FDIC'S MOTION TO DISQUALIFY TRUSTEE'S COUNSEL

ARONOVITZ, District Judge.

THIS CAUSE came before the Court upon the FDIC's Motion to Disqualify Trustee's Counsel, Whitman & Ransom, and four individual attorneys at Whitman & Ransom, file dated August 4, 1992.

THE COURT has considered the motion, responses, the pertinent portions of the record, and oral argument of counsel heard on October 23, 1992. For the following...

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