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 Call it the we're too broke 
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defense.
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 Lawyers for dozens of insolvent savings and loan associations are trying a new tack in their efforts 
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to defuse suits 
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filed by borrowers, developers and creditors.
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 The thrifts' lawyers claim 
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that the suits, 
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numbering 700 to 1,000 in Texas alone, 
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should be dismissed as moot 
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because neither the S&Ls nor the extinct Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. has the money 
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to pay judgments.
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 Though the argument may have a common-sense ring to it, 
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even the S&L lawyers concede there's little precedent to back their position.
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 Still, one federal appeals court has signaled 
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it's willing to entertain the notion, 
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and the lawyers have renewed their arguments in Texas and eight other states 
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where the defense is permitted under state law.
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 The dismissal of the pending suits could go a long way toward clearing court dockets in Texas 
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and reducing the FSLIC's massive legal bills, 
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which topped $73 million last year.
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 The S&L lawyers were encouraged last month by an appellate-court ruling in two cases 
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brought against defunct Sunbelt Savings & Loan Association of Dallas by the developers of the Valley Ranch, 
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best known as the training center for the Dallas Cowboys football team.
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 Sunbelt foreclosed on the ranch.
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 Sunbelt and the FSLIC argued to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 
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that there will never be any assets 
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with which to satisfy a judgment against Sunbelt Savings 
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nor any means to collect from any other party, 
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including FSLIC.
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 If true, 
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the court wrote, 
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this contention would justify dismissal of these actions on prudential grounds. 
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But the court said 
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it lacked enough financial information about Sunbelt and the FSLIC 
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and sent the cases back to federal district court in Dallas.
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 Charles Haworth, a lawyer for Sunbelt, says 
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he plans to file a brief this week 
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urging the district judge to dismiss the suits, 
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because Sunbelt's liabilities exceeded its assets by about $2 billion 
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when federal regulators closed it in August 1988.
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 This institution is just brain dead, 
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says Mr. Haworth, a partner in the Dallas office of Andrews & Kurth, a Houston law firm.
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 But a lawyer for Triland Investment Group, the developer of Valley Ranch, dismisses such arguments as a defense du jour.
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 Attorney Richard Jackson of Dallas says 
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a judgment for Triland could be satisfied in ways other than a monetary award, 
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including the reversal of Sunbelt's foreclosure on Valley Ranch. 
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 We're asking the court for a number of things 
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he can grant 
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in addition to the thrill of victory, 
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he says.
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 We'd take the Valley Ranch free and clear as a booby prize.
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