In Re Intl Nutronics, Inc.

3 F.3d 306 1993-2 Trade Cases P 70,325 , 24 Bankr.Ct.Dec. 922 , Bankr. L. Rep. P 75,383 In re INTL NUTRONICS, INC., Debtor. Jerome ROBERTSON, Trustee Chapter 7 Trustee of International Nutronics, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ISOMEDIX, INC., a Delaware corporation; Radiation Sterilizers, Inc., a California corporation individually and as joint venturers, Defendants-Appellees. No. 91-15253. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted April 12, 1993. Decided Aug. 10, 1993. Jeffrey J. Parish, Andrea J. Ingram, Rosenblum, Parish & Bacigalupi, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellant. Peter J. Busch, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, San Francisco, CA, Ian N. Feinberg, Ware & Freidenrich, Palo Alto, CA, for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before: CANBY, and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges, and WILSON, * District Judge. CANBY, Circuit Judge: 1 In this case, we must decide whether bid-rigging and anti-trust claims brought by a trustee on behalf of a bankrupt estate are barred by the res judicata effect of a bankruptcy court's sale order. BACKGROUND 2 International…