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TRAVELERS CAS. & SUR. CO. v. PACIFIC GAS

No. 05-1429.

127 S.Ct. 1199 (2007)

549 U.S. 443

167 L.Ed.2d 178

TRAVELERS CASUALTY & SURETY CO. OF AMERICA, Petitioner, v. PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 20, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Eric Brunstad, Jr. , Hartford, Connecticut, for Petitioner.

E. Joshua Rosenkranz , New York, New York, for Respondent.

G. Eric Brunstad, Jr. , Rheba Rutkowski , Robert A. Brundage , William C. Heuer , Francesca L. Miceli , Eric Heining , Sukti Dhital , Amy Lawler , Nicholas Salazar , Bingham McCutchen LLP, Hartford, Connecticut, for Petitioner.

Gary M. Kaplan , Howard Rice Nemerovski , Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, California, Thomas C. Goldstein , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, DC, E. Joshua Rosenkranz , David B. Goodwin , Carren Shulman , Timothy S. Mehok , Andrew Levine , Heller Ehrman LLP, New York, New York, for Respondent.

We are asked to consider whether federal bankruptcy law precludes an unsecured creditor from recovering attorney's fees authorized by a prepetition contract and incurred in postpetition litigation. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held, based on a rule previously adopted by that court,...

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