In re UNITED STATES LINES, INC. and United States Lines (S.A.) Inc. f/k/a/ Moore McCormack Lines, Inc., Debtors,
United States Lines, Inc. and United States Lines (S.A.) Inc., Reorganization Trust, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant,
Asbestosis Claimants, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant,
v.
American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association, Inc., West of England Owners Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association, Inc. and Continental Insurance Corporation, The United Kingdom Mutual Steamship Assurance Association (Bermuda) Limited, Assuranceforeningen Skuld, Liverpool & London Mutual Steamship Protection and Indemnity Association Limited, Marine Officers of America Corp., and The Travelers Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.
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John D. Kimball, (Jeremy J.O. Harwood), Healy & Baillie, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant-Appellee U.K. Mutual S.S. Assurance Association (Bermuda) Ltd.
Richard H. Brown, Marshall P. Keating, Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants-Appellees American S.S. Owners Mutual Protection & Indemnity Assoc., Inc. & Liverpool & London Mutual S.S. P & I Assoc. Ltd.
Alexander F. Vitale, Freehill, Hogan & Mahar, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant-Appellee West of England Ship Owners Mut. Ins. Assoc. (Luxembourg).
George W. Sullivan, Lambos & Junge, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant-Appellee Assuranceforeningen Skuld.
Helen M. Benzie, Bigham Englar Jones & Houston, New York, N.Y. for Defendants-Appellants-Appellees The Continental Ins. Co. & The Fulton Syndicate Survivors.
Nicholas Even, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellant-Appellee The Travelers Ins. Co.
Alan Kellman, The Maritime Asbestos Legal Clinic, a Division of The Jaques Admiralty Law Firm, P.C., Detroit, MI, for Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee-Appellant.
Before: JON O. NEWMAN, WALKER, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Judges NEWMAN and CALABRESI file separate concurring opinions.
WALKER, Circuit Judge:
The United States Lines, Inc. and United States Lines (S.A.) Inc. Reorganization Trust (the "Trust") sued in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (Francis G. Conrad, Bankruptcy Judge) seeking a declaratory judgment to establish the Trust's rights under various insurance contracts. The bankruptcy court held that the action was within its core jurisdiction...
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