Abel v. West, 91-6119
| Decision Date | 10 May 1991 |
| Docket Number | No. 91-6119,91-6119 |
| Citation | 932 F.2d 898 |
| Parties | Kevin M. ABEL; Abel & Busch, Inc., Petitioners, v. Honorable Lee R. WEST, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Respondent. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Tenth Circuit |
L. Gene Gist (Tim D. DeGiusti with him, on the brief), Andrews, Davis, Legg, Bixler, Milsten & Price, Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiff-appellee Landsing Diversified Properties-II.
Burk E. Bishop (Lance Stockwell and Emily Y. Duensling with him, on the brief), Boesche, McDermott & Eskridge, Tulsa, Okl., for defendant-appellee First Nat. Bank & Trust Co. of Tulsa.
Steven R. Hickman (James E. Frasier, on the brief), Frasier & Frasier, Tulsa, Okl., for third-party defendants-appellants.
Before BALDOCK, BARRETT and EBEL, Circuit Judges.
This matter is before the court on a petition for writ of mandamus or an alternative motion for clarification of our mandate filed by Kevin M. Abel and Abel & Busch, Inc. (Abel), the prevailing appellants in In re Western Real Estate Fund, Inc., 922 F.2d 592 (10th Cir.1990). Landsing Diversified Properties-II (LDP) and the First National Bank and Trust Company of Tulsa B, appellees, have submitted a response in opposition. Our mandate in this case having issued, our jurisdiction arises under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1651(a). See Estate of Whitlock v. Commissioner, 547 F.2d 506, 510 (10th Cir.1976), cert. denied, 430 U.S. 916, 97 S.Ct. 1329, 51 L.Ed.2d 594 (1977).
In concluding our prior opinion, we stated: "The injunction issued against Abel is AFFIRMED only insofar as it temporarily precludes, during the pendency of this bankruptcy proceeding, the pursuit of fees that are subject to indemnification by LDP ..." In re Western Real Estate, 922 F.2d at 602. Complying with our mandate, the district court initially entered a judgment enjoining Abel from pursuit of its fees during the preparation and confirmation of LDP's reorganization plan. Upon motion of LDP and FNB, however, the district court then amended its judgment to enjoin Abel "during the pendency of the bankruptcy proceeding."
Although the amended judgment duplicates one part of our conclusion, the first judgment of the district court on remand was consistent with the intent expressed in the opinion. 1 In that opinion, we indicated that a temporary injunction may be appropriate during the development and evaluation of a reorganization plan, but it would not be appropriate post-confirmation in the form of a permanent injunction. Id. at 600. We also followed In re American Hardwoods, Inc. 885 F.2d 621, 624-25 (9th Cir.1989), to the same effect. In re Western Real Estate, 922 F.2d at 601-602.
Given the apparent ambiguity contained in our mandate, however, we feel that we should modify the final paragraph of our prior opinion as follows:
To sum up, the bankruptcy court's determination of Abel's contract claim for pre-petition fees is REVERSED and the cause...
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