The 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel upheld the bankruptcy court's rulings granting relief from the automatic stay under section 362(d)(1) and (d)(4) and dismissing the chapter 13 case where...
Echoing a similar ruling in a separate case, the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) affirmed orders (1) overruling the objection by Carol Lee DePuydt-Meier (DR) to a proof...
Judge(s):
Gary A. Spraker; Robert J. Faris; and Julia W. Brand
A homeowners' association foreclosure sale that violates the automatic stay (11 U.S.C. § 362(a)) is void under Nevada law, and the holder of a deed of trust that was extinguished by the HOA's...
Judge(s):
Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Danielle J. Forrest, and Lawrence VanDyke, Circuit Judges
In this one of two related opinions, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Ninth Circuit (BAP) reversed the decision of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California (BC) to...
Judge(s):
Laura S. Taylor; Robert J. Faris; and William J. Lafferty III
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Panel) (1) asserted its appellate jurisdiction to review a stay of district-court proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and (2) affirmed the...
Judge(s):
Diane S. Wood; David F. Hamilton; and Frank H. Easterbrook
BAP for 9th Cir. affirmed bankruptcy court (ND Cal.) dismissed debtor's adversary complaint against foreclosing creditors and their attorney for willful violation of automatic stay. Real property...
The Court of Appeals reversed the order vacating the dismissal of the debtor's Chapter 13 case and remanded to the Bankruptcy Court with instructions to dismiss the case. The Court based its ruling...
Judge(s):
Gibbons, Kethledge and Murphy; Opinion by Kethledge
Debtor's Notice of Appeal only attached the order denying Debtor's motion for reconsideration. Therefore, the BAP's ruling was limited to only the reconsideration order and not the prior stay...
Judge(s):
Honorable Faris, Lafferty, and Taylor, Bankruptcy Judges
The BAP reversed the bankruptcy court's decision which denied the creditors' request to garnish funds held by the Chapter 13 Trustee post-dismissal, and the BAP remanded the matter to allow the...
Affirming the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts (BC), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (Circuit) for the first time formally extended its preexisting...
Judge(s):
Jeffrey R. Howard; Kermit V. Lipez; and Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson
