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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 158', '§ 1292', '§ 158', '§ 1292', '§ 158', '§ 158', '§ 158', '§ 158', '§ 1292', '§ 1292', '§ 158', '§ 158', '§ 1291', '§ 1292']

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968 F2d 1003 Temex Energy Inc v. Underwood Wilson Berry Stein & Johnson 968 F.2d 1003
28 Collier Bankr.Cas.2d 960, Bankr. L. Rep. P 74,708TEMEX ENERGY, INC., Successor by Merger of Amarex, Inc.,Plaintiff-Appellee,v.UNDERWOOD, WILSON, BERRY, STEIN & JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant.
From the submissions in response to the order it seemed clear that we had previously addressed and decided this issue, although in a slightly different setting, in In re Commercial Contractors, Inc., 771 F.2d 1373 (10th Cir.1985). There, the District Court had remanded the case to the Bankruptcy Court with orders to permit a necessary party to intervene and thereafter to conduct de novo hearings. That remand was held to be not appealable to this Court, on the ground that the issues to be determined on remand mandated significant further proceedings.
However, since the argument and initial consideration herein, the Supreme Court decided Connecticut Nat'l Bank v. Germain, --- U.S. ----, 112 S.Ct. 1146, 117 L.Ed.2d 391 (1992), addressing the effect of the passage of 28 U.S.C. § 158(d) on the appellate jurisdiction of the court of appeals. There, the Court held that interlocutory orders issued by district courts sitting as appellate courts in bankruptcy are appealable under 28 U.S.C. § 1292, despite the reference only to "final" orders in § 158(d). The Court noted, "[t]here is no reason to infer from either § 1292 or § 158(d) that Congress meant to limit appellate review of interlocutory orders in bankruptcy proceedings." Id. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 1150 (emphasis added).
We note that the holding in Connecticut Nat'l conflicts with portions of this Court's opinion in Commercial Contractors, supra. There this Court stated with respect to 28 U.S.C. § 158, that "[t]he 1978 Act, as amended, limited appellate jurisdiction to final orders...." Id. at 1374. We focused particularly on § 158(d) and its provision on jurisdiction of bankruptcy appeals from final decisions. As the Supreme Court has now explained, § 158 does not limit the scope of § 1292, and "[s]o long as a party to a proceeding or case in bankruptcy meets the conditions imposed by § 1292 a court of appeals may rely on that statute as a basis for jurisdiction." Connecticut Nat'l, --- U.S. at ----, 112 S.Ct. at 1150.
Accordingly, the limitation in our Commercial Contractors case, quoted above, on court of appeals jurisdiction to final orders is no longer valid.3 Nevertheless, our Commercial Contractors opinion remains viable in other respects and informs our decision about the finality requirement as a general rule concerning the reviewability of final decisions in bankruptcy appeals. In Commercial Contractors, we adopted the Seventh Circuit's remand exception respecting the finality requirement of § 158(d) as announced in In re Riggsby, 745 F.2d 1153 (7th Cir.1984). See Commercial Contractors, 771 F.2d at 1375, and cases cited therein. This remand exception also applies to appeals brought under § 158 or § 1291. See id. at n. 2; In re Glover, Inc., 697 F.2d 907 (10th Cir.1983). Especially noteworthy is the Riggsby court's statement that:
We are authorized to state that all the active judges of this Court have approved the foregoing statement respecting the effect of the Supreme Court's Connecticut Nat'l opinion on this Court's Commercial Contractors opinion, as well as on such progeny which rely on its holding that § 1292 jurisdiction is not available in bankruptcy appeals, including Eddelman v. United States Dep't of Labor, 923 F.2d 782, 784 (10th Cir.1991); In re Atencio, 913 F.2d 814, 816 (10th Cir.1990); Kaiser Steel Corp. v. Frates, 911 F.2d 380, 386 (10th Cir.1990)
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