IN RE 650 FIFTH AVE. CO.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel S. Ruzumna ( Melissa Ginsberg , Diana M. Conner , on the brief), Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, New York, and John Gleeson ( Winston Paes , on the brief), Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, New York, for Claimants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

Daniel M. Tracer , Assistant United States Attorney ( Michael D. Lockard , Martin S. Bell , Samuel L. Raymond , Thomas McKay , Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Audrey Strauss , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

Patrick N. Petrocelli , Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, New York, New York ( James L. Bernard , Curtis C. Mechling , Pamela S. Takefman , Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, New York, New York; Timothy B. Fleming , Wiggins Childs Pantazis Fisher Goldfarb PLLC, Washington, D.C.; Dale K. Cathell , Richard M. Kremen , DLA Piper LLP (US), Baltimore, Maryland; Liviu Vogel , Salon Marrow Dyckman Newman & Broudy, LLC, New York, New York; Peter R. Kolker , Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for the Acosta, Beer, Greenbaum, Kirschenbaum, Havlish, Heiser, Peterson, Miller, and Rubin Claimants-Appellees.

Ralph P. Dupont , Dupont Law Firm, Stamford, Connecticut, for Hegna Claimants-Appellees.

Before: Parker and Chin, Circuit Judges, and Restani, Judge.