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IN RE AMERICAN CARTAGE, INC.

No. 10-2284.

656 F.3d 82 (2011)

In re AMERICAN CARTAGE, INC., Debtor. City Sanitation, LLC, Appellant, v. Allied Waste Services of Massachusetts, LLC, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 31, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall F. Newman , with whom Newman & Newman, P.C. was on brief, for appellant.

Euripides Dalmanieras and John A. Burdick, Jr. , with whom Kenneth S. Leonetti , Foley Hoag LLP, D. Ethan Jeffery , and Murphy & King, P.C. were on consolidated brief, for appellees.

Before HOWARD, SELYA and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is the culmination of a pitched battle between two waste-disposal firms, squabbling over the carcass of a third. The littered battlefield brings to mind the familiar adage that one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Telling the tale requires us to resolve questions of standing to prosecute claims arising out of a bankruptcy; questions of first impression as to the distinction between "commercial tort claims" and "proceeds...

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