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In re: OLD CARCO LLC, Debtor. Boucher Imports, Inc., Crain CDJ, LLC, Creditors-Appellants, v. Quaden Motors, Inc., aka John Quaden Dodge, Inc., Johnson Motors of St. Croix Falls, Inc., Lakeland Pontiac-GMC-Jeep, Inc., aka Lakeland Oldsmobile-Pontiac-GMC, Mueller Chrysler, Inc., Wolfs Motor Car Company, Inc., Braeger Chrysler Jeep, Inc. Creditors, v. Old Carco LLC, fka Chrysler LLC, Chrysler Group LLC, Debtors-Appellees.
    
    Nos. 10-3093-bk (L), 10-3127-bk (con).
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    Sept. 19, 2011.
    
      Daniel J. Roda (Charles D. Davidson, on the brief), Davidson Law Firm, LTD, Little Rock, AR, for Crain CDJ, LLC; and Paul R. Norman, Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field LLP, Madison, WI, for Boucher Imports, Inc., for Appellants.
    Danielle Spinelli, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C. (Eric F. Citron, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Robert D. Cultice, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA; Mark T. Clouatre, Gwen J. Young, Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell LLP, Denver, CO; Kevyn D. Orr, Beth R. Heifetz, C. Kevin Marshall, Jones Day, Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey B. Ellman, Jones Day, Columbus, OH; Dennis Murashko, Jones Day, Chicago, IL, on the brief)., for Appellees.
    PRESENT: GUIDO CALABRESI, RICHARD C. WESLEY, GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The Clerk of the Court is directed to conform the caption in accordance herewith.
    
   SUMMARY ORDER

Once a bankruptcy court’s order becomes final, the order is res judicata, even to claims that challenge the bankruptcy court’s subject matter jurisdiction. Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Bailey, 557 U.S. 137, -, 129 S.Ct. 2195, 2205, 174 L.Ed.2d 99 (2009). Here, the Sale and Rejection Orders are final; neither Appellant appealed those Orders and the time to do so has expired. Thus, the bankruptcy court’s sole task was to determine whether the Sale and Rejection Orders precluded Appellants’ state law actions, even if there were valid objections to those orders that could have been made when they were entered.

We have reviewed the bankruptcy court’s Enforcement Order and the district court’s order affirming the same, and AFFIRM for the reasons stated by the district court in its well-reasoned decision.

AFFIRMED.