Opinion ID: 6931473
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Appellate Efforts

Text: The Manges debtors took an appeal from the confirmation order to the district court and unsuccessfully applied for a stay of the Plan pending appeal from both the bankruptcy court and the district court. They also sought a writ of mandamus from this court to compel the district court to issue the stay, but that request was similarly denied. Seattle and SeaFirst urged the district court to dismiss the appeal as moot, but the district court refused, concluding that the Plan had not been substantially consummated. Specifically, the court below found that the most substantial asset of the debtors-the ranch property-had not been sold, though it recognized that a substantial amount of the Trust property had otherwise been alienated. Reaching the merits, the district court affirmed the confirmation order by order entered May 4, 1998 (the May 4 order). The Manges debtors then commenced the instant appeal. Two days after filing their notice of appeal, on May 14, 1993, the Mang-es debtors sought and were denied an emergency stay from the district court of its May 4 order pending appeal to this court. This court denied a similar motion for stay on May 25, 1993. On September 7, 1993, the Manges debtors filed an amended motion to stay the Plan pending appeal, but that motion was also denied a week later.