IN RE CLEARY PACKAGING, LLC

No. 21-1981.

36 F.4th 509 (2022)

IN RE: CLEARY PACKAGING, LLC, Debtor. Cantwell-Cleary Co., Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Cleary Packaging, LLC, Defendant-Appellee. Public Justice Center; Legal Aid Justice Center; Mountain State Justice; North Carolina Justice Center; Casa; Centro de los Derechos del Migrante; National Black Worker Center; National Employment Law Project; Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO; United States of America, Amici Supporting Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: June 7, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Justin Philip Fasano , MCNAMEE HOSEA, P.A., Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant. Robert Joel Branman , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Amicus United States. Paul Sweeney , YUMKAS, VIDMAR, SWEENEY & MULRENIN, LLC, Columbia, Maryland, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Steven L. Goldberg , MCNAMEE HOSEA, P.A., Greenbelt, Maryland, for Appellant. James R. Schraf , YUMKAS, VIDMAR, SWEENEY & MULRENIN, LLC, Columbia, Maryland, for Appellee. Michael R. Abrams , Murnaghan Appellate Advocacy Fellow, PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER, Baltimore, Maryland, for Amici The Public Justice Center; The Legal Aid Justice Center; Mountain State Justice; The North Carolina Justice Center; CASA; Centro de los Derechos del Migrante; The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO; The National Black Worker Center; and The National Employment Law Project. David A. Hubbert , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Joan I. Oppenheimer , Tax Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.; Erek L. Barron , United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Baltimore, Maryland, for Amicus United States.

Reversed and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge Niemeyer wrote the opinion, in which Judge Motz and Judge King joined.


When Cleary Packaging, LLC, filed a petition in bankruptcy under Subchapter V of Chapter 11 as a "small business debtor," seeking to discharge a $4.7 million judgment that Cantwell-Cleary Co., Inc. had obtained against it for intentional interference with contracts and tortious interference with business relations, Cantwell...

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