Enron Corp.'s creditors may sue two Houston law firms, an auditor and about three dozen former executives in connection with the energy company's collapse, a bankruptcy judge ruled.
The ruling by Judge Arthur Gonzalez of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan clears the way for creditors to add law firms Vinson & Elkins and Andrews & Kurth, accounting firm Andersen and others to a civil fraud and negligence lawsuit brought last year in Montgomery County, Texas.
