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IN RE S.S. RETAIL STORES CORP.

No. 97-17004.

162 F.3d 1230 (1998)

In re S.S. RETAIL STORES CORPORATION, a California corporation, Debtor. Linda Ekstrom STANLEY, United States Trustee, Region 17, Appellant, v. S.S. Retail Stores Corporation; Official Unsecured Creditors Committee, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 17, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Pope, Office of Trustee, Oakland, CA; Jacob M. Lewis and Daniel L. Kaplan, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Jonathan M. Landers, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, San Francisco, CA, for appellees.

Before: PREGERSON, WIGGINS, and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The United States Trustee appeals an order from the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel ("BAP") for the Ninth Circuit affirming the bankruptcy court's order authorizing appointment of Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher, LP as general counsel for S.S. Retail Stores, a debtor-in-possession. The U.S. Trustee claims that appointment was improper because Gibson, Dunn is not a disinterested person as required by 11 U.S.C. § 327(a) given that one of its partners had recently...

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