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BIG RIVERS ELEC. CORP. v. THORPE

Civil Action No. 93-cv-0110-O(C). No. 95-cv-107-O(C).

195 B.R. 664 (1996)

BIG RIVERS ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Plaintiff, and NSA, Inc., Commonwealth Aluminum Corporation and Alcan Aluminum Corporation, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. William H. THORPE; Shirley Pritchett; Eddie R. Brown; Denise Thorpe Perkins; Clyde Brown; Buddie R. Morris, II, Executor of the Estate of Buddie R. Morris; and E & M Coal Company, Defendants. consolidated with In re GREEN RIVER COAL CO., INC., Debtor. BIG RIVERS ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. GREEN RIVER COAL CO., INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Kentucky.

May 15, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen W. Holbrook, Ridley M. Sandidge, Jr., Frank Stainback, Jr., Sullivan, Mountjoy, Stainback & Miller, P.S.C., Owensboro, KY, W. David Denton, Denton & Keuler, Paducah, KY, for Big Rivers Electric Corporation.

Harold Wayne Newton, Hawesville, KY, Allison Wade, L. Dale Owens, Edward C. Konieczny, Booth, Wade & Campbell, Atlanta, GA, Steven W. Hardy, Steven A. Jackman, Wade & Campbell, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for NSA, Inc.

John E. Bickel, Jr., Thacker, Bickel, Hodskins & Thacker, Owensboro, KY, for Commonwealth Aluminum Corporation.

David C. Brown, Stites & Harbison, Louisville, KY, Victor B. Maddox, R. Greg Hovious, Tachau, Maddox & Hovious P.S.C., Louisville, KY, G. Christopher Van Bever, Andalex Resources, Inc., Louisville, KY, for Alcan Aluminum Corporation.

Peter L. Ostermiller, Frank E. Haddad, Jr., Louisville, KY, for William H. Thorpe.

Thomas M. Williams, Ogden, Newell & Welch, Louisville, KY, Barbara Reid Hartung, Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, Louisville, KY, Thomas E. Neal, John W. Stevenson, Connor, Neal & Stevenson, Owensboro, KY, David V. Miller, George C. Barnett, Greg A. Granger, Bowers, Harrison, Kent & Miller, Evansville, IN, for Eddie R. Brown and E & M Coal Co.

William F. Polk, Jr., Henderson, KY, Phillip Dane Shields, Henderson, KY, Sandra D. Freeburger, Deitz & Freeburger, Henderson, KY, for Shirley Pritchett.

John Tim McCall, Louisville, KY, for Denise Thorpe Perkins.

Bill R. Paxton, Jonathan King, Paxton & King, PLC, Central City, KY, Bart Adams, White, Conway & Adams, Louisville, KY, Jack Fowler, Mt. Carmel, IL, for Clyde Brown, Jr.

Jeff S. Taylor, Owensboro, KY, Roger V. Barth, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, Washington, DC, for Buddie R. Morris, Jr., and Buddie R. Morris, Sr.

John R. Leathers, Stephen G. Allen, Buchanan & Ingersoll, Lexington, KY, Thomas L. Vankirk, Buchanan Ingersoll, P.C., Pittsburgh, PA, for Green River Coal Company, Inc.

Merrill S. Schell, Barbara Wetzel Gernert, John P. Reisz, M. Stephen Pitt, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Louisville, KY, Bobbie T. Shell, Baker & Botts, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Texas Commerce Bank National Association, Banque Paribas, Den Norske Bank A.S., Norwest Bank Denver, N.A., Bank Paribas and National Associates.

Phillip G. Abshier, Bamberger & Abshier, Owensboro, KY, Steven S. Crone, Foreman, Watson, Crone & Shelburne, P.S.C., Owensboro, KY, for Unsecured Creditors' Committee.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

COFFMAN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court upon the motion to intervene as a defendant by the unsecured creditors' committee ("the committee") [Record No. 215].

The committee argues that 11 U.S.C. § 1109(b)1 "confers an unconditional right to intervene" within the meaning of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a)(1)2 and that it may intervene...

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