IN RE WORLDCOM, INC.

Docket No. 06-2079-bk.

546 F.3d 211 (2008)

In re WORLDCOM, INC., Debtor, Victor O. Browning, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MCI, Inc., Reorganized Debtor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 14, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Gotfryd (Arthur T. Susman, on the brief), Susman Heffner & Hurst LLP, Chicago, IL; and Barry J. Dichter, Evan R. Fleck, on the brief, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, New York, NY, for plaintiff-appellant.

Alfredo R. Pérez (Sylvia A. Mayer, on the brief), Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Houston, TX; and Marcia L. Goldstein and Lori R. Fife, on the brief, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY, for reorganized debtor-appellee.

Before: SOTOMAYOR, B.D. PARKER and HALL, Circuit Judges.


SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Victor Browning appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Stein, J.) affirming an order of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (Gonzalez, J.) granting the reorganized debtor-appellee MCI, Inc.'s motion to bar Browning from prosecuting Kansas state law claims for trespass and unjust enrichment against MCI, Inc. following its emergence...

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