Summarized by Steven Holmes , Cavazos Hendricks Poirot, PC
11 years 10 months ago
Citation:
United States ex rel. Spicer v. Navistar Defense, LLC (In re Westbrook), Case No. 12-10858 (5th Cir. May 5, 2014).
Ruling:
Chapter 7 Trustee of whistleblower / debtor’s estate had exclusive standing to prosecute a qui tam False Claims Act against manufacturer of military vehicles when debtor failed to disclose the...
Judge(s):
Jerry Edwin Smith, Edward C. Prado and Jennifer Walker Elrod.
Summarized by Madison Conquest , State of Tennessee Real Estate Asset Management
12 years 7 months ago
Citation:
Bank of America, N.A. v. James A. Knight, et al., Case No. 12-2698 (7th Cir. August 8, 2013)
Ruling:
Affirmed dismissal of all claims for failure to allege plausibly that the accountants knew that Knight’s “primary intent” was to benefit the particular plaintiff Bank. Under federal and state...
Judge(s):
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and BAUER and KANNE, Circuit Judges
Houston Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur's order sanctioning a Seattle-based attorney for the attorney's pattern of ignoring Judge Isgur's prior rulings was AFFIRMED. The attorney represented a...
