Filed: Mar. 11, 2009
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Summary: FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT In the Matter of: MAPLE- WHITWORTH, INC., Debtor No. 07-56537 MICHAEL N. SOFRIS, aka Sofris BAP No. APC, CC-06-01098-KNB Appellant, Central District of v. California, Los Angeles MAPLE-WHITWORTH, INC.; UNITED STATES TRUSTEE; LARRY OPINION WEINSTOCK; MICA BINTU-BROWN; and EMANUEL PEREZ, Appellees. Appeal from the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Klein, Nielsen, and Brandt, Bankruptcy Judges, Presiding Argued and Su
Summary: FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT In the Matter of: MAPLE- WHITWORTH, INC., Debtor No. 07-56537 MICHAEL N. SOFRIS, aka Sofris BAP No. APC, CC-06-01098-KNB Appellant, Central District of v. California, Los Angeles MAPLE-WHITWORTH, INC.; UNITED STATES TRUSTEE; LARRY OPINION WEINSTOCK; MICA BINTU-BROWN; and EMANUEL PEREZ, Appellees. Appeal from the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Klein, Nielsen, and Brandt, Bankruptcy Judges, Presiding Argued and Sub..
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FOR PUBLICATION
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
In the Matter of: MAPLE-
WHITWORTH, INC.,
Debtor
No. 07-56537
MICHAEL N. SOFRIS, aka Sofris BAP No.
APC, CC-06-01098-KNB
Appellant, Central District of
v. California,
Los Angeles
MAPLE-WHITWORTH, INC.; UNITED
STATES TRUSTEE; LARRY OPINION
WEINSTOCK; MICA BINTU-BROWN;
and EMANUEL PEREZ,
Appellees.
Appeal from the Ninth Circuit
Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
Klein, Nielsen, and Brandt, Bankruptcy Judges, Presiding
Argued and Submitted
December 9, 2008—Pasadena, California
Filed March 11, 2009
Before: John T. Noonan and Barry G. Silverman,
Circuit Judges, and Suzanne B. Conlon,* District Judge.
Opinion by Judge Conlon
*The Honorable Suzanne B. Conlon, United States District Judge for
the Northern District of Illinois, sitting by designation.
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3122 IN THE MATTER OF MAPLE-WHITWORTH
COUNSEL
Michael N. Sofris, Michael N. Sofris APC, Beverly Hills,
California, for the appellant Michael N. Sofris, aka Sofris
APC.
Jerry Kaplan; David Scott Kadin, Kaplan, Kenegos & Kadin,
Beverly Hills, California, for the appellee Maple-Whitworth,
Inc.
OPINION
CONLON, District Judge:
This court’s February 10, 2009 opinion recounts that Sofris,
joined by others in the Mayman-Nathan faction, filed an
involuntary Chapter 7 petition against Maple-Whitworth
under 11 U.S.C. § 303(a)-(b). Michael N. Sofris, aka Sofris
APC v. Maple-Whitworth, Inc. (In re Maple-Whitworth, Inc.),
___ F.3d ___, No. 07-56537,
2009 WL 310902, at *1 (9th
Cir. Feb. 10, 2009). This statement adopts the Bankruptcy
Appellate Panel’s characterization of the involuntary petition
as a Chapter 7 petition. Michael N. Sofris, APC v. Maple-
Whitworth, Inc. (In re Maple-Whitworth, Inc.),
375 B.R. 558,
563 (B.A.P. 9th Cir. 2007). Sofris filed a notice of errata stat-
ing that the involuntary petition was a Chapter 11 petition. No
objection to the notice of errata has been filed. The record
confirms that the involuntary petition sought relief under
IN THE MATTER OF MAPLE-WHITWORTH 3123
Chapter 11. The February 10, 2009 opinion is corrected to
reflect that the involuntary petition invoked Chapter 11, not
Chapter 7.