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Parties Involved:
Brant A. Bradford
Appellant
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Not Party
Medical Funding Services, Inc.
Appellee
Michelle W. Stern
Appellee

Document Text:

" . FILED 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

Uoned States Court of A pea.ls 

Tenth Ci!'cPit p 

UG 2 7 1990 

In re: ) 

BRANT A. BRADFORD, doing business as ) 

'Brant A. Bradford, D.D.S., P.C., ) 

) 

) 

) 

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION, ) 

) 

Defendant, ) 

) 

MEDICAL FUNDING SERVICES, INC., ) 

) 

Creditor-Appellee, ) 

) 

MICHELLE W. STERN, ) 

) 

Trustee-Appellee, ) 

) 

v. ) 

) 

) 

BRANT A. BRADFORD, doing business as ) 

Brant A. Bradford, D.D.S., P.C., ) 

) 

Debtor-Appellant. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT * 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 86-2330 

(D.C. Nos. 85-M-1019, 

85-M-1969 

& 

85-M-1329) 

( D. Colo.) 

Before SEYMOUR, BRORBY, and EBEL, Circuit Judges. 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

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assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App . P . 

34(a); 10th Cir. R. 34.1.9. 

submitted without oral argument. 

The case is therefore ordered 

Debtor appeals from an order of the district court in No. 

85-M-1969 affirming an order of the bankruptcy court which imposed 

sanctions against debtor's counsel after counsel refused to turn 

debtor's original books and records over to the bankruptcy 

trustee. The district court also held moot debtor's appeals in 

Nos. 85-M-1019 and 85-M-1329 from orders of the bankruptcy court 

directing that records be turned over to the trustee because they 

had been turned over prior to issuance of the district court's 

order. 1 

This court issued an order directing briefing on the issue of 

whether the proper party had appealed in light of Torres v. 

Oakland Scavenger Co., 487 U.S. 312 (1988), and In Re Woosley, 855 

F.2d 687 (10th Cir. 1988). The parties did not respond to our 

order, but instead have jointly stipulated that the bankruptcy 

court abused its discretion by imposing sanctions and have moved 

to dismiss this appeal as moot based on their stipulation. 

In Torres, the Supreme Court held that parties taking an 

appeal must be specifically named in the notice of appeal. 487 

U.S. at 318. Here, sanctions were imposed by the bankruptcy court 

against counsel, not against the debtor. This court has held that 

in such an instance, the failure of the sanctioned party to appeal 

in its own name required the court to dismiss the appeal. In Re 

1 Debtor has not raised any issues on appeal dealing with the 

district court's orders regarding Nos. 85-M-1019 and 85-M-1329. 

2 

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Woosley, 855 F.2d at 688. Because only the debtor appealed to 

this court, we are without jurisdiction over this appeal. 

Any relief that the parties may wish to obtain from the order 

below should be addressed to the district court pursuant to 

Fed. R. Civ. P. 60. 

Accordingly, 

jurisdiction. 

this appeal is DISMISSED 

ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

PER CURIAM 

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for lack of 

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