- 11 U.S.C.
In re Siller
Apr
09
2010
Ruling
State court award of fees was not preclusive on debtor's objection as reasonableness had not been considered.
Procedural posture
Movants, attorneys who had represented the individual and corporate debtors in corporate litigation and who had obtained a state court judgment for attorney's fees based on arbitration, moved for summary judgment, asserting the arbitration award was either claim or issue preclusive on the debtors' objection to the reasonableness of the fees, raised under 11 U.S.C.S. § 502(b)(4), in light of the Full Faith and Credit Statute, 28 U.S.C.S. § 1738.
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