18-753 In re: AMR Corporation

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

SUMMARY ORDER RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT=S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION ASUMMARY ORDER@). A PARTY CITING TO A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL.

1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, held at 2 the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York, 3 on the 9th day of April, two thousand nineteen. 4 5 PRESENT: 6 ROBERT D. SACK, 7 PETER W. HALL, 8 CHRISTOPHER F. DRONEY, 9 Circuit Judges. 10 _____________________________________ 11 12 In re: AMR Corporation, 13 14 Debtor. 15 _____________________________________ 16 17 Lawrence M. Meadows, 18 19 Creditor-Appellant, 20 21 v. 22 18-753 23 24 AMR Corporation, 25 Debtor-Appellee. 26 _____________________________________ 27 28 FOR CREDITOR-APPELLANT: LAWRENCE M. MEADOWS, Park City, UT. 29 30 FOR DEBTOR-APPELLEE: Alfredo R. Pérez, Christopher M. Lopez, 31 Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Houston, TX. 32 1 Appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New

2 York (Carter, J.).

3 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND

4 DECREED that the judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED.

5 Appellant Lawrence M. Meadows, pro se, appeals from a district court judgment that affirmed

6 the bankruptcy court’s orders enforcing a plan and confirmation order—in AMR Corporation’s

7 Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition—against Meadows and denying reconsideration. The district court

8 prohibited him from seeking any further relief against American Airlines (“American”) based on

9 conduct that arose prepetition, directed him to dismiss his pending actions against American, and

10 required him to communicate about all matters concerning his litigation exclusively with American’s

11 outside counsel. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history

12 of the case, and the issues on appeal.

13 “A district court’s order in a bankruptcy case is subject to plenary review, meaning that this

14 Court undertakes an independent examination of the factual findings and legal conclusions of the

15 bankruptcy court.” In re Cacioli,

(2d. Cir. 2006) (internal quotation marks omitted).

16 We review the bankruptcy court’s conclusions of law de novo and its findings of fact for clear error.

17 In re Vebeliunas,

, 90 (2d Cir. 2003).

18 Upon review, we conclude that the district court properly affirmed the bankruptcy court’s

19 orders. We affirm for substantially the reasons stated by the district court in its thorough March 2,

20 2018 order. As to Meadows’s challenge to the order directing that he speak only to American’s outside

21 counsel about his litigation, his characterization of the order on appeal is overbroad. The bankruptcy

22 court’s order barred him only from speaking with American employees about his “pending litigation

2 23 matters” and expressly provided that it did not “prohibit Meadows from contacting American to the

24 extent he is permitted to do so in connection with his prior employment, nor [did] it limit his conduct

25 in his position as founder of the Disabled Pilots Foundation or in any other similar organization.”

26 App’x at 1602.

27 We have considered all of Meadows’s arguments and find them to be without merit.

28 Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.

29 FOR THE COURT: 30 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk of Court

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