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MATTER OF USA DIVERSIFIED PRODUCTS, INC.

No. 96-1900.

100 F.3d 53 (1996)

In the Matter of USA DIVERSIFIED PRODUCTS, INC., Debtor. R. David BOYER, Trustee, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CARLTON, FIELDS, WARD, EMMANUEL, SMITH & CUTLER, P.A., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 8, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael P. O'Hara, Thomas P. Yoder (argued), Barrett & McNagny, Fort Wayne, IN, Hywel Leonard, Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, Tampa, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Howard B. Sandler, Robert L. Nicholson (argued), Beckman, Lawson, Sandler, Snyder & Federoff, Fort Wayne, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

R. D. Boyer, Helmke, Beams, Boyer & Wagner, Fort Wayne, IN, Trustee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and WOOD, Jr., and ESCHBACH, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

This appeal by the defendant in an adversary proceeding brought by a trustee in bankruptcy requires us to interpret section 542 of the Bankruptcy Code. In September 1992, Carlton, Fields, a Florida law firm, was retained by Paul Davis, the owner of an import-export company named USA Diversified Products, Inc., to represent Diversified, Davis, and his wife in a suit for fraud that had been brought against...

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