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GILCHRIST v. GENERAL ELEC. CAPITAL CORP.

No. 01-1823.

262 F.3d 295 (2001)

Margaret GILCHRIST; John Brown; Gloria Renew; Martha Griffin; Estrella D. Ard; Grant L. Cobb; Manuel House; Clifford Griffin; Mary E. Moore; Marshall Kitchens; Daniel A. Beard; Linda Fishburn; Lillie M. Samuels; Delores A. Williams; Coral L. Hyde; Patricia Grubbs; Brenda Beal; Annette E. Irby; Ruby H. McCullough; Brenda Bush; Josie M. Hearst; Tuyet T. Parham; Corine P. Robbin; Ada S. Spivey; Nguyen Thu Young; Thomasenia J. Weaver; Carrie Thurmond; Dorothy M. Franklin; Ernestine Estes; Warren Carter; John Diggs; Donnie Spires; Robert E. Cooper; Cora K. James; Barbara Roye; Mia Farrow; Willie E. Spivey; Shirley A. Donaldson; Thomas Henley; Star-Delta Electric Company; Motion Ind; Silver Sheet Metal, Incorporated; Clair Turner; Thu Kim Vo; My Van Vo; Edward L. Slot, Sr.; Ricky Jackson; Wanessa Gilmore; Patrick Thurmond; Dennies L. Scott; Larry W. White; Francis A. Greiner; Mary E. Clark; Richardean P. Clark; Cht R. Beitlich Corporation, Petitioning creditors in an involuntary bankruptcy in the United States bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Appellants, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Spartan International, Incorporated, Cleveland Mills Company; Home Furnishings, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees, and Peter L. Tourtellot, Receiver, Appellee, and Avondale Mills, Incorporated, Movant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 16, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John Bush Long, Tucker, Everitt, Long, Brewton & Lanier, P.A., Augusta, Georgia; Louis Saul, Saul & Mitchell, P.C., Augusta, Georgia, for Appellants. James A. Pardo, Jr., King & Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia; Robert L. Widener, McNair Law Firm, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Joseph B. Mitchell, III, Saul & Mitchell, P.C., Augusta, Georgia; James Thomas Wilson, Jr., James T. Wilson, Jr., P.C., Augusta, Georgia, for Appellants. Sarah Robinson Borders, Mark M. Maloney, Brian C. Walsh, King & Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia; Michael M. Beal, McNair Law Firm, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina; Paul R. Hibbard, Johnson, Smith, Hibbard & Wildman, L.L.P., Spartanburg, South Carolina, for Appellees.

Before NIEMEYER, KING, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge GREGORY joined.

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

When Spartan International, Incorporated, and its subsidiaries (collectively "Spartan") closed their doors for business, their major creditor commenced this debt-collection action in the District of South Carolina under State law. To facilitate the foreclosure of the creditor's lien interest in Spartan's assets...

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