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MATTER OF MUNFORD, INC.

No. 94-9014.

97 F.3d 449 (1996)

Matter of MUNFORD, INC., d.b.a. Majik Market, Debtor. Danne Brokaw MUNFORD, as Executrix of the Estate of Dillard Munford; James M. Carroll; Russell Fellows; Joseph W. Hardin; Jay Rubel; Winton M. Blount; Herbert J. Dickson; James L. Ferguson; Robert M. Gardiner; Richard K. Leblond; Andrall E. Pearson; S.B. Rymer, Jr.; DFA Investment Dimensions Group, Inc.; PNC Bank, National Association; Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company; State Street Bank & Trust Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc., Plaintiff, v. MUNFORD, INC.; Valuation Research Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 10, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph John Burton, Jr., Atlanta, GA, Peyton S. Hawes, Jr., Office of Peyton S. Hawes, Jr., Atlanta, GA, Thomas Willard Rhodes, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Atlanta, GA, Robert Matthew Martin, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Atlanta, GA, David E. Bennett, Vedder, Price Kaufman & Kammholz, Chicago, IL, Kenneth Lee Millwood, Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, GA, for plaintiffs-appellants.

John H. Williamson, Gregory R. Hanthorn, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Atlanta, GA, C. Murray Saylor, Jr., Ragsdale, Beals, Hooper & Seigler, Atlanta, GA, for plaintiff Shearson Lehman Brothers.

Kathleen S. Donius, Stephen T. Jacobs, Reinhart, Boener, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach, Milwaukee, WI, David N. Schaeffer, Kidd & Vaughan, Atlanta, GA, Susan A. Cahoon, Neal S. Berinhout, Kilpatrick & Cody, Atlanta, GA, for defendants-appellees.

Before HATCHETT, Chief Judge, CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge, and MILLS, District Judge.

HATCHETT, Chief Judge:

In this case arising in a bankruptcy context, the court affirms the district court's ruling that 11 U.S.C. § 105(a) and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 16, authorize bankruptcy courts to enter bar orders to facilitate settlements.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On June 17, 1991, Munford, Inc., acting as debtor in possession under 11 U.S.C. §§ 544(b) and 1107(a),...

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