North Shore debtors may add civil suit to bankruptcy action

LOVELAND — Parties affected by the North Shore Manor bankruptcy filing made progress toward agreement on first-day court orders, but testimony Thursday indicated that the debtors and Columbine Management Systems are no closer to harmonizing “KumBaYa.”

An exasperated federal judge listened patiently to the attorney for North Shore Manor describe what he said were efforts to force North Shore into failure. The attorney for Columbine responded that the debtor’s problems were brought on by its actions, not Columbine’s. 

The judge told North Shore that if Columbine had breached a contract, the remedy was to file a lawsuit, not debate it in bankruptcy…