IN RE DOW CORNING CORP.

Bankruptcy No. 95-20512.

215 B.R. 526 (1997)

In re DOW CORNING CORPORATION, Debtor.

United States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Michigan, Northern Division.

December 19, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara J. Houser, Craig J. Litherland, Sheinfeld Maley & Kay, P.C., David M. Bernick, P.C., Kirkland & Ellis, Rozanne M. Giunta, Susan M. Cook, Lambert, Leser, Cook, Giunta & Smith, P.C., for Debtor.

Marvin E. Frankel, Kenneth H. Eckstein, Jeffrey S. Trachtman, Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel, Lenard M. Parkins, Anne M. Ferazzi, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chartered, for Official Committee of Tort Claimants.

H. Jeffrey Schwartz, Gregory G. Binford, Jeffrey M. Levinson, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, L.L.P., Randall L. Frank, for Official Physicians' Committee.

Donald S. Bernstein, Ogden N. Lewis, Lowell Gordon Harriss, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Sheldon S. Toll, Sheryl L. Toby, Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn, for Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors.

Dennis S. Meir, Alfred S. Lurey, Kilpatrick Stockton, L.L.P., for Official Committee of Tort Claimants.

R. Mike Borland, Vi Lea Borland, Borland & Borland, Robert J. Rhead, P.C., for a Group of 86 Silicone Personal Injury Claimants.

Linda C. Scheuerman, Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, Michigan and Minnesota and Blue Shield of California.

D'Juana Parks, Provost* Umphrey Law Firm L.L.P., for a Group of 347 Claimants.


SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION ON DEBTOR'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON OMNIBUS DISEASE CLAIM OBJECTION

ARTHUR J. SPECTOR, Bankruptcy Judge.

In our last opinion, the Court held that a bankruptcy court is empowered to grant summary judgment disallowing personal injury claims pending against a debtor. In re Dow Corning Corp., 215 B.R. 346 (Bankr.E.D.Mich.1997). In this opinion, we recommend that, pursuant to 28 U.S...

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