In re Trans World Airlines

TWA (debtor), facing multiple flight-attendant discrimination lawsuits requiring travel vouchers and additional pending discrimination charges at the time American Airlines agreed to buy it, obtained bankruptcy-court approval treating those claims as unsecured and extinguishing any successor liability against American for the travel-voucher program and pending discrimination charges; the EEOC (plaintiff), representing the affected flight attendants, argued those claims weren't "interests in property" under § 363(f) and were therefore improperly extinguished, but the district court agreed with the bankruptcy court that they were.