IN RE JOHNS-MANVILLE CORP.

Docket Nos. 06-2099-bk (L), 06-2103-bk (con), 06-2105-bk (con), 06-2118-bk (con), 06-2186-bk (con).

517 F.3d 52 (2008)

In re JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, Debtor. Johns-Manville Corporation, Manville Corporation, Manville International Corporation, Manville Export Corporation, Johns-Manville International Corporation, Manville Sales Corporation f/k/a Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, Successor by Merger to Manville Buildings Materials Corporation, Manville Products Corporation and Manville Service Corporation, Manville International Canada, Inc., Manville Canada, Inc., Manville Investment Corporation, Manville Properties Corporation, Allan-Deane Corporation, Ken-Caryl Ranch Corporation, Johns-Manville Idaho Inc., Manville Canada Service Inc., Sunbelt Contractors Inc., Debtors, Travelers Casualty and Surety Company, Travelers Property Casualty Corp., Travelers Indemnity Company, Common Law Settlement Counsel, Statutory Settlement Counsel, Hawaii Settlement Counsel, Movants-Appellees, v. Chubb Indemnity Insurance Company, Asbestos Personal Injury Plaintiffs, Cascino Asbestos Claimants, Pearlie Bailey, Shirley Melvin, General Lee Cole, Robert. Alvin Griffin, Vernon Warnell, Lee Fletcher Anthony, Objectors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: February 15, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sander L. Esserman (Cliff I. Taylor, on the brief), Stutzman, Bromberg, Esserman & Plifka, PC, Dallas, TX (Douglas T. Tabachnik, Law Offices of Douglas T. Tabachnik, Manalapan, NJ, on the brief) for Objector-Appellant Asbestos Personal Injury Plaintiffs.

Jacob C. Cohn (William P. Shelley, on the brief), Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia, PA, for Objector-Appellant Chubb Indemnity Insurance Company.

Jason R. Searcy, (Joshua P. Searcy, on the brief), Jason R. Searcy, P.C., Longview, TX, for Objector-Appellant Cascino Asbestos Claimants.

Barry R. Ostrager (Andrew T. Frankel, on the brief), Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Robert J. Pfister, Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, on the brief), for Movants-Appellees Travelers Casualty and Surety Company, Travelers Property Casualty Corp., and Travelers Indemnity Company.

Ronald Barliant (Kenneth S. Ulrich, Kathryn A. Pamenter, on the brief), Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Ltd., Chicago, IL (Karen A. Giannelli, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, PC, Newark, NJ, on the brief), for Movant-Appellee Common Law Settlement Counsel.

Matthew Gluck (Kent A. Bronson, on the brief), Milberg Weiss, LLP, New York, NY, for Movant-Appellee Statutory Direct Action Plaintiffs and the Hawaii Plaintiffs.

Before: CALABRESI, SOTOMAYOR, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.


WESLEY, Circuit Judge:

Chubb Indemnity Insurance Company, Asbestos Personal Injury Plaintiffs,1 and Cascino Asbestos Claimants2 ("Appellants") appeal from an order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Koeltl, J.) affirming in significant part and vacating in part the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law entered by the bankruptcy court (Lifland, J.) regarding Travelers's

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