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RESOLUTION TRUST CORP. v. LIGHTFOOT

No. 90-1374.

938 F.2d 65 (1991)

RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION, as Conservator for American Savings & Loan Association of Brazoria County, Plaintiff and Counterdefendant-Appellant, v. Leroy and Janet LIGHTFOOT, Defendants and Counterplaintiffs-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 19, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Fletcher, E. Glenn Rippie, Hopkins & Sutter, Martin F. Hauselman, Rhoda E. Markovitz, Liebling & Hauselman, Chicago, Ill., and Lawrence F. Bates, Laura A. Lane, and Panos S. Midis, Hopkins & Sutter, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Stephen E. Smith and George S. Bellas, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, WOOD, Jr. and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

This case presents a question of great practical, if not theoretical or intellectual, import. Does the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) permit the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) to remove cases filed in state court to the federal court district in which the state action was pending? Or must RTC remove, if at all, to the District of Columbia or the district...

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