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042489P.pdf 04/29/2005 Apex Oil Company v. Katherine Sparks
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 04-2489
Eastern District of Missouri
Civil case - Bankruptcy. District court order affirming bankruptcy
court's denial of Apex's motion to reopen its bankruptcy case pursuant to
11 U.S.C. Sec. 350(b) affirmed; the decision as to whether to reopen a
case lies within the bankruptcy court's discretion, based on the facts and
circumstances of each particular case, and the court did not abuse its
discretion in refusing to reopen a case which was fully administered and
had been closed for more than seven years.
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Hansen and Benton, Circuit Judges]