MATTER OF CAJUN ELEC. POWER CO-OP., INC.

No. 96-30985.

119 F.3d 349 (1997)

In the Matter of CAJUN ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE, INC., Debtor. The OFFICIAL COMMITTEE OF UNSECURED CREDITORS, Appellant, v. CAJUN ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE, INC., By and Through Its Chapter 11 Trustee, Ralph R. MABEY; Entergy Gulf States, Inc.; Entergy Corporation; United States Department of Agriculture, on Behalf of Rural Utilities Service, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 5, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph E. Friend, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, New Orleans, LA, Gerald M. Amero, Catherine Ruth Connors, Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster, Portland, ME, for Appellant.

David S. Rubin, Kantrow, Spaht, Weaver & Blitzer, Baton Rouge, LA, Lon A. Jenkins, Kenneth L. Cannon, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, Salt Lake City, UT, for Cajun Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.

Tom F. Phillips, Courtney S. DeBlieux, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, Baton Rouge, LA, David J. Messina, Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips, New Orleans, LA, for Entergy Gulf States, Inc. and Entergy Corp.

Thomas Mark Bondy, William Kanter, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Before SMITH, BARKSDALE and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.


BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

Cajun Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. ("Cajun") is a non-profit rural electrical power cooperative that made an imprudent investment in a nuclear power plant and is now a Chapter 11 debtor. In this bankruptcy appeal, a committee representing more than 500 unsecured trade creditors asserting claims of approximately $7 million objects to the settlement of litigation between Cajun and its two largest...

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