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California's Claims Against Enron Must Stay in N.Y. Bankruptcy Court

New York Law Journal

October 1, 2004

A federal bankruptcy judge in New York has barred California from pursuing its claims in a pending suit against the Enron Corp. arising from that state's energy crisis a few years ago. California joined a long list of claimants in filing with the bankruptcy court in 2002, then earlier this year filed a separate action against Enron in California state court mirroring those claims. Judge Arthur Gonzalez rejected the parallel suit as "an exercise in forum shopping."

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