First, the Court reversed the Bankruptcy Court's finding that appellant was entitled to a contingent fee award for objecting to a derivative action settlement and thereby improving the outcome, and...
Shared-Responsibility payments (i.e., the individual mandate) under the pre-2017 version of the Affordable Care Act were not "excise taxes" entitled to priority treatment under 11 USC...
When can post-rejection damages be allowed as administrative expenses? The Court clarified: Claimant can prove "necessity" through "evidence of either a direct request from the...
Reversing the ruling below, the Seventh Circuit found "disbursement" to be an "expansive term" covering all payments made by or for a debtor, including direct payments to revolving lines of credit....
In an opinion designated as precedential only to the parties, the Sixth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) affirmed the Bankruptcy Court ruling that a landlord's claim for residential rent...
The bankruptcy court's interpretation of its own standing order regarding "no-look" compensation to Chapter 13 debtors' attorneys was reasonable. The standing order's deletion of a provision...
The Court of Appeals affirmed the rulings of the District and Bankruptcy Courts that the state tax authorities' levy upon the Debtors' account was barred by the applicable statute of limitations,...
Judge(s):
Daughtrey, Gibbons and Griffin; Opinion by Gibbons
Chapter 7 trustee, who had obtained an order in the Chapter 11 case of debtor's single-member LLC substituting himself for debtor as manager of LLC and authorizing him to manage and operate LLC's...
IDEA Boardwalk may reduce its rent obligations by certain amounts entitled to recoupment under the Lease, (1) because they “fall within the ambit of rights preserved under Code §...
Judge(s):
AMBRO, CHAGARES, and GREENAWAY, JR., Circuit Judges
