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IN RE OCA, INC.

No. 07-30430.

552 F.3d 413 (2008)

In the Matter of: OCA, INC., formerly doing business as Orthodontic Center of America; Orthalliance New Image; Orthodontic Centers of Texas, Inc.; Pedoalliance, Inc.; Orthoalliance, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Debtors. Doug Crosby, D.D.S., Donald B. Doan, D.D.S., Glenwood Jordan, D.D.S., Elgin E. Wells; Plaintiffs-Appellees, OCA, Inc., A Delaware Corp.; Pedoalliance, Inc.; Plaintiffs-Appellants, Richard R. Woehrle, D.D.S., M.S.; Michael M. Dillingham, D.D.S., P.C., a Texas Professional Corporation; Michael M. Dillingham, D.D.S.; Austin Orthodontic Specialists; Robert P. Buck; Buck Orthodontices Associates, P.C.; Stephen N. Cole; Bay Area Orthodontices, P.C., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Orthalliance New Image; Orthondontic Centers of Texas, Inc.; Defendants-Appellants, Dudley M. Hodgkins; Dudley M. Hodgkins, D.D.S., M.S.D., P.C., a Texas Professional Corp.; William R. Izzard; Ruby Izzard, D.D.S., P.C., Defendants-Appellees, Orthoalliance, Inc., a Delaware Corporation; Defendant-Appellant, Ron Risinger, D.D.S.; Ron Risinger, D.D.S., P.C., Movants-Appellees. Robert Packard; Packard Orthodontics, P.A., Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 12, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Gambel (argued), Milling Benson Woodward, New Orleans, LA, for Crosby, Doan, Jordan, Jordan, Wells, Izzard, DDS and Izzard, PC.

Robert John Clary (argued), William L. Foreman, Owens, Clary & Aiken, Dallas, TX, Warren Horn, Heller, Draper, Hayden, Patrick & Horn, New Orleans, LA, for OCA, Inc., Pedoalliance, Inc., Orthodontic Centers of Texas, Inc. and Orthoalliance, Inc.

J. David Forsyth, Sessions, Fishman & Nathan, New Orleans, LA, Peter Charles Forbes (argued), Horowitz Forbes, LLP, Denver, CO, for Dillingham, PC, Dillingham, DDS and Austin Orthodontics Specialists.

Michael H. Pinkerton, Bruce A. Cranner, David Phillip Curtis, Frilot, LLC, New Orleans, LA, for Buck, Buck Orthodontics Associates, PC, Cole and Bay Area Orthodontics, PC.

Kell Corrigan Mercer (argued), Brown McCarroll, Austin, TX, for Hodgkins, DDS and Hodgkins, PC.

R. Joseph Naus, Michael Allyn Stroud, Wiener, Weiss & Madison, Shreveport, LA, for Risinger, DDS and Risinger, DDS, PC.

Sean Joseph McCaffity, Rochelle Hutcheson & McCullough, Plano, TX, for Packard and Packard Orthodontics, PA, Amici Curiae.

Before GARWOOD, CLEMENT and ELROD, Circuit Judges.

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Debtors-appellants OCA, Inc., formerly doing business as Orthodontic Centers of America, Inc.; OrthAlliance New Image, Inc.; Orthodontic Centers of Texas, Inc.; PedoAlliance, Inc.; and OrthAlliance, Inc. (collectively "OCA") directly appeal the January 17, 2007 interlocutory order of the bankruptcy court granting partial summary judgment and holding that the Business Services Agreements or Management Agreements (collectively the "BSAs") that...

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