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Lisa Schweitzer, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and Martin Kostov, an associate with the firm, review a recent decision that again raises the possibility that equitable disallowance of claims may be within the power of bankruptcy courts, although the court did not actually disallow claims in its ruling or define the precise standards for granting such a remedy.